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Vulnerability Causing Deletion of All Users in CrushFTP Admin Area

During a recent penetration test, Trustwave SpiderLabs researchers discovered a weak input validation vulnerability in the CrushFTP application which caused the deletion of all users. CrushFTP is a secure high- speed file transfer server that runs on almost any OS. It handles a wide array of protocols, and security options. It gives the server administrator the ability to customize, monitor, and control every aspect of the server’s operations: https://www.crushftp.com/.

CrushFTP stores details of registered users within the filesystem in the users/MainUsers directory.

The contents of this directory are shown below, with the default users crushadmin, default, and TempAccount, each having their own directory.

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Figure 1: MainUsers directory content

Admin users have privileges to create additional accounts on the web interface. While testing for weak input validation, researchers tried various special characters in the username and realized that quotes and periods were not being blocked. As a result, it became possible to create a user named ““.” When this particular user was selected to be deleted the “.” was parsed directly to the filesystem without sanitization and was taken to mean part of the path which resulted in all users being removed.

The below screenshot shows the user manager page on the web interface.

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Figure 2: User manager page on the web interface

 

A new directory containing details for the user ““.” was created on the file system.

 

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Figure 3: New directory details for user “”.”

 

The user ““.” was selected to be deleted.

 

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Figure 4: Deleting user “”.”

 

The below log lines show commands sent to the server when the user ““.” was deleted.

SERVER|10/26/2022 01:50:39.523|SETTINGS:users/MainUsers/&quot delete

SERVER|10/26/2022 01:50:39.532|SETTINGS:users/MainUsers/. Delete

The “.” was parsed directly to the filesystem without sanitization and all folders under MainUsers were deleted.

 

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Figure 5: All folders under MainUsers deleted

 

On the web interface, researchers saw that the user list was empty.

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Figure 6: Empty user list

 

As a result, users were not able to login.

 

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Figure 7: Failed login

 

Responsible Disclosure

As a part of Trustwave’s Responsible Disclosure policy, we reached out to the vendor to ensure that a patch was released prior to public disclosure. CrushFTP was responsive and easy to work with throughout this process. The vendor fixed this issue in version 10.3.0_44: https://www.crushftp.com/version10_build.html.

Conclusion

Post-authentication vulnerabilities are often overlooked. However, when the post-authentication vulnerability exposes an administrator to attack, these issues deserve a closer look due to the risk associated with a successful attack. Given the right circumstances, a successful exploit can produce disastrous results.  

Reference

TWSL2023-002: Input validation Vulnerability in CRUSHFTP

Trustwave SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2023-002

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