CVE-2020-11710: Kong Admin <=2.03 - Admin API Access

2025-08-01 Kong Admin PoC Public

Description

Kong Admin through 2.0.3 contains an issue via docker-kong which makes the admin API port accessible on interfaces other than 127.0.0.1.

PoC

id: CVE-2020-11710

info:
  name: Kong Admin <=2.03 - Admin API Access
  author: pikpikcu
  severity: critical
  description: Kong Admin through 2.0.3 contains an issue via docker-kong which makes the admin API port accessible on interfaces other than 127.0.0.1.
  impact: |
    Remote attackers can gain unauthorized administrative access to the Kong Admin API.
  remediation: |
    Upgrade to Kong version 2.0.3 or later to fix the vulnerability and ensure proper authentication and access control mechanisms are in place.
  reference:
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11710
    - https://github.com/Kong/kong
    - https://github.com/Kong/docs.konghq.com/commit/d693827c32144943a2f45abc017c1321b33ff611
    - https://github.com/Kong/docker-kong/commit/dfa095cadf7e8309155be51982d8720daf32e31c
    - https://github.com/Kong/docs.konghq.com/commit/e99cf875d875dd84fdb751079ac37882c9972949
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2020-11710
    epss-score: 0.33127
    epss-percentile: 0.98277
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:konghq:docker-kong:*:*:*:*:*:kong:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: konghq
    product: docker-kong
    framework: kong
    shodan-query: cpe:"cpe:2.3:a:konghq:docker-kong"
  tags: cve,cve2020,kong,konghq,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}"
      - "{{BaseURL}}/admin/"

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - 'Welcome to kong'
          - 'configuration'
          - 'kong_env'
        condition: and

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100a41608f68309421ec112f65803d45e4c4fdb37e6c6758961c611137df8ca99d4022100df02135586058db84f06bbc5018eca0088c5f069f29165f4c4f09b470104de46:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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