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Legal Robot · Report #274324

cross site web socket hijacking

Duplicatestatus
2upvotes
11 Oct 2017disclosed

How it was found

In the below web-socket request successful 101 protocol handshake is working with the origin:https://app.legalrobot.com, but if you place the malicious origin in the place of https://thisdata.com which is http://evil.com or any page containing the malware, the web socket server is still giving 101 protocol successful handshake which means that we socket server is not checking origin headers while opening the connection which may lead to cross site web socket hijacking.

  1. Open https://app.legalrobot.com
  2. Intercept the websocket request with burpsuite like i've intercepted and send it to repeater

GET /sockjs/431/bcbqwec5/websocket HTTP/1.1 Host: app.legalrobot.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13 Origin: https://app.legalrobot.com Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate Sec-WebSocket-Key: jrJn6D4ddqaeGfrLMxQdow== Cookie: __cfduid=d3446c9cf6346287bf143c4d82a4843e81506572367; _ga=GA1.2.1754317931.1506572375; ajs_user_id=null; ajs_group_id=null; ajs_anonymous_id=%22d0db4012-5f13-4ef4-b25e-ea87340bddb9%22; intercom-id-nmyyq5i5=6ee58969-0370-4131-bae3-3f15c320ca9d; _gat=1; galaxy-sticky=!fqm5S7o42sAL2eD8T-zkg1n; _gid=GA1.2.930494122.1507113142 Connection: keep-alive, Upgrade Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-cache Upgrade: websocket

  1. Now change the origin (from https://app.legalrobot.com) and replace it (to https://evil.com) with maliious origin.
  2. The web socket server is still giving successfull 101 handshake which means web socket server is not verifying the origin while opening the connection.

Both of the request i've attached below. Thank you.

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