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Numerous Swiss domain names temporarily hijacked

Last Friday at around 14:05 we noticed that our website (www.scrt.ch) along with some other services we use internally were no longer accessible. We immediately tried to figure out why that was and quickly noticed that our DNS requests were not returning the correct IP addresses.

A pentester’s take on (Not)Petya

By now, everybody has probably read many articles on the latest viral outbreak, ranging from detailed analysis of the virus itself to rants about why companies don’t apply updates in a timely fashion and why employees continue to open malicious attachments in emails.

Insomni’Hack 2017 – FPS Write-Ups

For the 10th Insomni’Hack anniversary, new hacking challenge categories were available during the CTF. They consisted of social engineering, hacking room, and a multiplayer FPS game.

This article will cover several write-ups for this last category. It is a great occasion to understand quickly some basis of modern game hacking.

Heap Overflow Vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler Gateway (CVE-2017-7219)

After presenting my findings on the Swisscom router at the CybSecConference last year, I started looking for a new product to analyze. I quickly found that it’s possible to download virtual “demo” appliances of Citrix products, so I went on to download a Netscaler VPX, which at the time was at version 11.10 (b50.10). The goal as always was to discover a way to compromise the device remotely, which is what led me to discover a heap overflow vulnerability which allows an authenticated user to compromise the device with root privileges. During the research, I (un)fortunately wasn’t able to find a way to exploit the flaw without credentials.

SCRT is proud to announce the opening of its new office in Bern

To sustain its growth and continue to maintain relations of proximity with its customers and partners, SCRT is glad to announce the opening of its new office in Bern.

SecureIT Valais – Workshop Buffer Overflow

La première édition de SecureIT s’est déroulée vendredi le 17 février à Sierre. L’événement organisé par l’AVPC (Association Valaisanne pour la Promotion de la Cybersécurité) en collaboration avec la HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Parti Pirate et le groupe de hackers étiques Fourchette Bombe, a rassemblé près de 300 participants.

SecureIT – Valais

Voici les slides de ma présentation de Vendredi dernier pour Secure-IT. J’y ai présenté quelques-unes des techniques les plus communément exploitées en test d’intrusion pour compromettre un domaine Windows ainsi que les différentes remédiations possibles.

recon Bruxelles 2017

Première édition de recon en Belgique en ce début d’année! Le logo de l’évènement change, mais le programme reste le même: Reverse engineering et exploitation. Du coup, pas une seule conférence n’a oublié son screenshot d’IDA Pro (qui est d’ailleurs le sponsor de l’évenement). Comme pour l’édition 2016 de Montréal, les conférences ont duré trois jours avec une seule track, donc pas de remords ni de regrets. 🙂

Je vous propose un aperçu de quelques conférences de cette première édition Européene:

Exploiting a misused C++ shared pointer on Windows 10

In this post I describe a detailed solution to my “winworld” challenge from Insomni’hack CTF Teaser 2017. winworld was a x64 windows binary coded in C++11 and with most of Windows 10 built-in protections enabled, notably AppContainer (through the awesome AppJailLauncher), Control Flow Guard and the recent mitigation policies.

Joomla! Admin user creation (3.4.4 → 3.6.3)

On October 25th, Joomla! was updated to version 3.6.4 to address two vulnerabilities :

CVE-2016-8869 concerning registration with elevated privileges.
CVE-2016-8870 concerning account creation while registration is disabled.

In this post, we wanted to quickly discuss the vulnerability and its impact on vulnerable installations.

Upon patch-diffing the two versions, we noticed that an entire method had been removed from the components/com_users/controllers/user.php file : the register method from the UsersControllerUser class.

Normally, the register method used by Joomla! is the one from the UsersControllerRegistration class, in components/com_users/controllers/registration.php.

The deleted one is most likely a leftover from old patches, and doesn’t enforce a check on whether or not user registration is enabled (as opposed to the UsersControllerRegistration.register method).

Moreover, the $data array is supposed to be sanitized in the first line below, but the unsanitized value is then used in the register function at the end of this snippet, allowing us to submit custom data such as group and uid values.

We can call this method by posting our registration values on the index.php?option=com_users&task=User.register URL.

POST /index.php?option=com_users&task=User.register HTTP/1.1
 Host: localhost
 Connection: keep-alive
 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
 Accept: */*
 User-Agent: python-requests/2.11.1
 Cookie: 96b8cb33d84fb0aa459957bcad81cf90=go86e62fsve2a3jaqdmk6h6oq4
 Content-Length: 284
 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

user[password1]=exploit&user[username]=exploit&user[email2]=exploit@exploit.exp&user[password2]=exploit&user[name]=exploit&user[email1]=exploit@exploit.exp&user[groups][]=7&7c48521fa302676bada83d0e344011f2=1

The newly created user is then found on the server :

For a valid request, we need to retrieve a CSRF Token and post it with a value = 1.

We are able to specify a custom user[id] value. If that id pre-exists in the database, the corresponding user will be overwritten during the registration.

Additionally, we can get high privileges by posting an array of user[groups][] values that will be assigned to the account. The default group id for Administrators is 7.