Directory Traversal Affecting cefsharp.common package, versions [53.0.0, 148.0.90)

CefSharp.Common is a the CefSharp Chromium-based browser component ('Core' and common 'Element' components, needed by both WPF and WinForms).

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal in FolderSchemeHandlerFactory through the URI-to-file-path resolution in FolderSchemeHandlerFactory.GetResponse. An attacker can read files outside the configured root directory by requesting a crafted https URL with encoded .. segments that are combined into a resolved filesystem path. This lets a remote page fetch sibling or parent-directory content that should not be served, exposing local files through the browser and returning their contents in the response body.

Notes

• The vulnerable check only compared the resolved filePath against rootFolder as a raw string prefix, so sibling directories with the same leading path text as the root could still be served if they existed on disk.
• The issue is in the scheme handler’s filesystem resolution path, so deployments that register FolderSchemeHandlerFactory for a custom scheme or an https/http host are exposed when that handler is used to serve local content from a configured directory.

A Directory Traversal attack (also known as path traversal) aims to access files and directories that are stored outside the intended folder. By manipulating files with "dot-dot-slash (../)" sequences and its variations, or by using absolute file paths, it may be possible to access arbitrary files and directories stored on file system, including application source code, configuration, and other critical system files.

Directory Traversal vulnerabilities can be generally divided into two types:

• Information Disclosure: Allows the attacker to gain information about the folder structure or read the contents of sensitive files on the system.

st is a module for serving static files on web pages, and contains a vulnerability of this type. In our example, we will serve files from the public route.

If an attacker requests the following URL from our server, it will in turn leak the sensitive private key of the root user.

curl http://localhost:8080/public/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/root/.ssh/id_rsa

Note %2e is the URL encoded version of . (dot).

• Writing arbitrary files: Allows the attacker to create or replace existing files. This type of vulnerability is also known as Zip-Slip.

One way to achieve this is by using a malicious zip archive that holds path traversal filenames. When each filename in the zip archive gets concatenated to the target extraction folder, without validation, the final path ends up outside of the target folder. If an executable or a configuration file is overwritten with a file containing malicious code, the problem can turn into an arbitrary code execution issue quite easily.

The following is an example of a zip archive with one benign file and one malicious file. Extracting the malicious file will result in traversing out of the target folder, ending up in /root/.ssh/ overwriting the authorized_keys file:

2018-04-15 22:04:29 .....           19           19  good.txt
2018-04-15 22:04:42 .....           20           20  ../../../../../../root/.ssh/authorized_keys

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