DEPRECATED

This repo is not indicative of the Spring4Shell vulnerability any longer. The initial though was that the RCE was achieved via a "Deserialization Injection" attack vector, but it has since been discovered to use a Struts-style "Class Loader Manipulation" attack vector instead.

For more details, please see our blog post on Spring4Shell.

Spring RCE example vulnerable application

This repository contains a Spring Boot web application vulnerable to a possible RCE due to this commit.

More details will be posted in this Twitter thread as they are identified. For now though, this repo serves only to help others determine the exploitability and impact of this vulnerability.

It uses Log4j 2.14.1 (through spring-boot-starter-log4j2 2.6.1) and the JDK 12. (_Note: Apparently JDK versions 8 and below aren't vulnerable.)

Running the application

Run and build it yourself (you don't need any Java-related tooling):

docker build . -t vulnerable-app
docker run -p 8080:8080 --name vulnerable-app --rm vulnerable-app

Exploitation steps

Note: This is highly inspired from the original LunaSec advisory. Run at your own risk, preferably in a VM in a sandbox environment.

Currently unknown!

We'll post up a more formal guide once we determine if there is a real exploit available for this issue. To stay informed, please follow us on Twitter or subscribe to our mailing list for updates.

$ curl -v 127.0.0.1:8080/post-body --data "$(echo foobar)"                                                              
*   Trying 127.0.0.1:8080...
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
> POST /post-body HTTP/1.1
> Host: 127.0.0.1:8088
> User-Agent: curl/7.82.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 2
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> 
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 200 
< Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
< Content-Length: 26
< Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:46:04 GMT
< 
* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
Hello, foobar

Reference

https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/ https://mbechler.github.io/2021/12/10/PSA_Log4Shell_JNDI_Injection/

Contributors

Thanks for these people for writing this basic vulnerable Spring app for Log4Shell. This repo is simply a fork of that with some slight tweaks. They did most of the work!

@christophetd @rayhan0x01

cvw643 / spring-rce-vulnerable-app