Document Title:
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Bugcrowd Bug Bounty #7 - Persistent Web Vulnerability


References (Source):
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http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1830

ID: b40f63ed19074014df808599e44684f6a18bb6f4f51cf21948ef78df2f56c13b


Release Date:
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2016-05-10


Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
====================================
1830


Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
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3.8


Product & Service Introduction:
===============================
From the outback to the valley, Bugcrowd is paving the way for crowdsourced 
security. Founded in 2012 in Australia by 
Casey Ellis, Bugcrowd is now based in San Francisco and is backed by Costanoa 
Venture Capital, Rally Ventures, Paladin Capital 
Group and Blackbird Ventures.

(Copy of the Homepage: https://bugcrowd.com/about )


Abstract Advisory Information:
==============================
The vulnerability laboratory research team discovered an application-side 
vulnerability in the official Bugcrowd online service web-application.


Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline:
==================================
2016-04-20: Researcher Notification & Coordination (Benjamin Kunz Mejri - 
Evolution Security GmbH)
2016-04-21: Vendor Notification (Bugcrowd - Bug Bounty Program)
2016-**-**: Vendor Fix/Patch (Bugcrowd - Bug Bounty Program)
2016-05-03: Acknowledgement & Bug Bounty (Bugcrowd - Bug Bounty Program)
2016-05-10: Public Disclosure (Vulnerability Laboratory)


Discovery Status:
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Published


Affected Product(s):
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Bugcrowd
Product: Online Service - Web Application 2016 Q2


Exploitation Technique:
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Remote


Severity Level:
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Medium


Technical Details & Description:
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A persistent script code injection and application-side mail encode web 
vulnerability has been discovered in the official Bugcrowd online service 
web-application.
The vulnerability typ allows an attacker to inject own malicious script code to 
the application-side of the vulnerable service function or web modules context.

The bugcrowd service allows to register by a web formular in the webpage to 
receive new information like "... Bugcrowd`s Next Chapter". In the name values 
attackers 
are able to inject malicious script codes. In an advisory send to bugcrowd 
about 1 year ago we already mentioned the problem but your team was not able to 
verify 
the bug finally. Thus time we exploited the bug by using casey ellis wrong 
encoded context of the bugcrowd registered users to stream the code with the 
service emails. 
The injection point is the formular registration for receiving information of 
bugcrowd and the execution point is the email body context with the broken 
encode values. 
The code directly executes after the arrival in the main body context and the 
sender of the email was the mail support@bugcrowd inbox.

The security risk of the application-side cross site web vulnerability is 
estimated as medium with a cvss (common vulnerability scoring system) count of 
3.7. 
Exploitation of the persistent input validation web vulnerability requires a 
low privileged web-application user account and low or medium user interaction. 
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in session hijacking, 
persistent phishing attacks, persistent external redirects to malicious source 
and 
persistent manipulation of affected or connected application modules.

Request Method(s):
                                [+] POST

Vulnerable Parameter(s):
                                [+] Firstname
                                [+] Lastname
                                [+] Companyname

Affected Module(s):
                                [+] Email Community Letter - 
(commun...@bugcrowd.com)


Proof of Concept (PoC):
=======================
The security vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers without user 
interaction or privileged web-application user account.
For security demonstration or to reproduce the vulnerability follow the 
provided information and steps below to continue.


PoC: Email: We've raised money, here's what's next from Bugcrowd 
(commun...@bugcrowd.com) - Casey Ellis
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust:100%; 
-ms-text-size-adjust:100%">Hi&nbsp;"&gt;<[PERSISTENT INJECTED SCRIPT CODE 
EXECUTION!]&quot;)" <="" "="">&amp;lt;iframe src=a onload=alert("PENTEST") 
&amp;lt;,&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;p style="margin-bottom: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust:100%; 
-ms-text-size-adjust:100%"&amp;gt;As you may have&amp;amp;nbsp;already heard, 
this morning we &amp;lt;a 
href="https://bugcrowd.com/resources/bugcrowd-15-million-raises-series-b"; 
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:100%; -ms-text-size-adjust:100%" 
data-hs-link-id="0"&amp;gt;announced 
our $15M Series B funding&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;. We're proud to have many of our 
previous investors joining us again, as well as pleased to welcome new 
investors to the family.
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;We couldn't have done this without you. 
With your help we've built a massive&amp;amp;nbsp;community of hackers, made up 
of diverse and 
talented folks from all over the 
world.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;We've got lots of plans for what's 
next and I've shared those details on our blog. Please check 
it out to learn 
more.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a 
href="https://blog.bugcrowd.com/15-million-to-connect-hackers-and-companies-bugcrowd-series-b";
 
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:100%; -ms-text-size-adjust:100%" 
data-hs-link-id="1"&amp;gt;Read about our plans for Bugcrowd's next 
chapter&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p style="margin-bottom: 1em; 
-webkit-text-size-adjust:100%; -ms-text-size-adjust:100%"&amp;gt;Thank you 
joining us on this journey. There's so much more to come!
We hope you'll &amp;lt;a 
href="https://twitter.com/Bugcrowd/status/722904657366884353"; 
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:100%; -ms-text-size-adjust:100%" 
data-hs-link-id="0"&amp;gt;join us 
today in our celebration&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; of this Bugcrowd community 
milestone.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;p style="margin-bottom: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust:100%; 
-ms-text-size-adjust:100%"&amp;gt;Sincerely,&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;p style="margin-bottom: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust:100%; 
-ms-text-size-adjust:100%"&amp;gt;Casey Ellis&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Bugcrowd Founder 
&amp;amp;amp; CEO&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;


Solution - Fix & Patch:
=======================
The vulnerability can be patched by a secure parse and encode of the vulnerable 
firstname, lastname and company values in the add POST method request.
Disallow the usage of special chars in the name values, encode the inputs as 
well to prevent further exploitation.
Encode as well outgoing emails to ensure that no malicious script code 
injection can take place with application-side attack vector.


Security Risk:
==============
The security risk of the filter bypass issue and application-side arbitrary 
script code injection web vulnerability is estimated as medium. (CVSS 3.8)


Credits & Authors:
==================
Vulnerability Laboratory [Research Team] - Benjamin Kunz Mejri 
(resea...@vulnerability-lab.com) [www.vulnerability-lab.com] 
[http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/show.php?user=Benjamin%20K.M.]


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