CVE-2021-411298.1HighCWE-502

CVE-2021-41129: Authentication bypass in Pterodactyl

pterodactyl · panel

Affected: pterodactyl panel · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

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1.8%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

78th percentile

050100

Higher than 78% of scored CVEs

8.1HighCVSS 3.1

LowMediumHighCrit.

DescriptionCVE.org

Pterodactyl is an open-source game server management panel built with PHP 7, React, and Go. A malicious user can modify the contents of a `confirmation_token` input during the two-factor authentication process to reference a cache value not associated with the login attempt. In rare cases this can allow a malicious actor to authenticate as a random user in the Panel. The malicious user must target an account with two-factor authentication enabled, and then must provide a correct two-factor authentication token before being authenticated as that user. Due to a validation flaw in the logic handling user authentication during the two-factor authentication process a malicious user can trick the system into loading credentials for an arbitrary user by modifying the token sent to the server. This authentication flaw is present in the `LoginCheckpointController@__invoke` method which handles two-factor authentication for a user. This controller looks for a request input parameter called `confirmation_token` which is expected to be a 64 character random alpha-numeric string that references a value within the Panel's cache containing a `user_id` value. This value is then used to fetch the user that attempted to login, and lookup their two-factor authentication token. Due to the design of this system, any element in the cache that contains only digits could be referenced by a malicious user, and whatever value is stored at that position would be used as the `user_id`. There are a few different areas of the Panel that store values into the cache that are integers, and a user who determines what those cache keys are could pass one of those keys which would cause this code pathway to reference an arbitrary user. At its heart this is a high-risk login bypass vulnerability.

Affected products1

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pterodactyl · panel>= 1.0.0, < 1.6.2

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Exploitation: Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Deserialization of Untrusted Data · Deserialization and Object Injection
Vendor: pterodactyl
Published: October 2021
Band: Possible (1 to 10%), October 2021

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