Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2017
The hacker Andrew Leonov (@4lemon) has described how to exploit the so-called ImageMagick vulnerability to remotely execute code on a Facebook server.
The ImageMagick flaw, tracked as CVE-2016-3714, affects the popular image manipulation software, ImageMagick. The flaw could be exploited by hackers to take over websites running the widely used image-enhancing app. The vulnerability in ImageMagick App allows attackers to run arbitrary code on the targeted web servers that rely on the app for resizing or cropping user-uploaded images.
@Facebook #ImageTragick remote code execution https://t.co/Rk3Qtax3ZD #RCE #BugBounty
— Andrew Leonov (@4lemon) January 17, 2017
The researcher has detailed in a post the attack and also provided a proof-of-concept exploit for the hack, Facebook has awarded him with the highest payoff since now, US$40,000.
“Once upon a time on Saturday in October i was testing some big service (not Facebook) when some redirect followed me on Facebook. It was a «Share on Facebook» dialog:” wrote Leonov.
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=APP_ID&link=link.example.tld&picture=http%3A%2F%2Fattacker.tld%2Fexploit.png&name=news_name&caption=news_caption&description=news_descriotion&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com&ext=1476569763&hash=Aebid3vZFdh4UF1H
“Which many of you could see. If we look closer we can see that a `picture` parameter is a url. But there isn’t image url on page content like mentioned above.” added Leonov.
The expert has discovered the vulnerability after a service redirected him to the Facebook platform, initially he was he was convinced he had discovered a server-side request forgery vulnerability.
“First of all I thought about some kind of SSRF issue. But tests showed that url from this parameter requested from 31.13.97.* network by facebookexternalhit/1.1.”
After testing the application, the expert devised the following workflow:
The management of the flaw was perfect, the expert reported the issue to Facebook through the bug bounty program in October and the IT giant fixed it in less than three days.
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(Security Affairs – ImageMagick, Facebook)
