appRain 3.0.2 - Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability

Advisory ID: HTB23177 
 Product: appRain 
 Vendor: appRain 
 Vulnerable Version(s): 3.0.2 and probably prior 
 Tested Version: 3.0.2 
 Advisory Publication: October 9, 2013 [without technical details] 
 Vendor Notification: October 9, 2013 
 Public Disclosure: November 6, 2013 
 Vulnerability Type: SQL Injection [CWE-89] 
 CVE Reference: CVE-2013-6058 
 Risk Level: High 
 CVSSv2 Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) 
 Solution Status: Solution Available 
 Discovered and Provided: High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab ( https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/ ) 


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Advisory Details: 


High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab discovered vulnerability in appRain, which can be exploited to perform SQL Injection attacks. 



1) Blind SQL Injection in appRain: CVE-2013-6058 


The vulnerability is caused by insufficient validation of user-supplied data appended to "/blog-by-cat/" URL. Remote attacker can execute arbitrary SQL commands to read, modify or delete information in application's database. 


The following exploitation example will display all posts from category 1, if the MySQL Server version is 5.x, otherwise no posts will be displayed: 


http://[host]/blog-by-cat/1%20and%20substring(version(),1,1)=5/ 


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Solution: 


Vendor did not reply to 5 notifications by email, 1 notification by twitter, 1 forum thread. Currently we are not aware of any official solution for this vulnerability. 


Unofficial patch was developed by High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab and is available here: https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23177-patch.zip 


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References: 


[1] High-Tech Bridge Advisory HTB23177 - https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23177 - SQL Injection in appRain. 
 [2] appRain - http://www.apprain.com/ - appRain is a platform to build your web base application. 
 [3] Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) - http://cve.mitre.org/ - international in scope and free for public use, CVE® is a dictionary of publicly known information security vulnerabilities and exposures. 
 [4] Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) - http://cwe.mitre.org - targeted to developers and security practitioners, CWE is a formal list of software weakness types. 
 [5] ImmuniWeb® - http://www.htbridge.com/immuniweb/ - is High-Tech Bridge's proprietary web application security assessment solution with SaaS delivery model that combines manual and automated vulnerability testing.