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LDAP Injections & Blind LDAP Injections Paper
1. INFORMÁTICA 64
LDAP Injection &
Blind LDAP Injection
In Web Applications
Authors: Chema Alonso, Rodolfo Bordón, Antonio Guzmán y Marta Beltrán
Speakers: Chema Alonso & José Parada Gimeno
Abstract. LDAP Services are a key component in companies. The information stored in them
is used for corporate applications. If one of these applications accepts input from a client and
execute it without first validating it, attackers have the potential to execute their own
queries and thereby extract sensitive information from the LDAP directory. In this paper a
deep analysis of the LDAP injection techniques is presented including Blind attacks.
2. LDAP Injection & Blind LDAP Injection
Index
Section
Page
1. Introduction
02
2. LDAP Overview
02
3. Common LDAP environments
03
4. LDAP Injection in Web Applications
04
4.1. AND LDAP Injection
06
4.1.1. Example 1: Access Control Bypass
06
4.1.2. Example 2: Elevation of Privileges
07
4.2. OR LDAP Injection
08
4.2.1. Example 1: Information Disclosure
5. Blind LDAP Injection
09
10
5.1. AND Blind LDAP Injection
10
5.2. OR Blind LDAP Injection
11
5.3. Exploitation Example
11
5.3.1. Discovering Attibutes
11
5.3.2. Booleanization
13
5.3.3. Charset Reduction
15
6. Securing Applications against
Blind LDAP Injection & LDAP Injection attacks
7. References
16
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1. Introduction
The amount of data stored in organizational databases has increased rapidly in recent years
due to the rapid advancement of information technologies. A high percentage of these data is
sensitive, private and critical to the organizations, their clients and partners.
Therefore, databases are usually installed behind internal firewalls, protected with intrusion
detection mechanisms and accessed only by applications. To access a database, users have to
connect to one of these applications and submit queries through them to the database. The
threat to databases arises when these applications do not behave properly and construct these
queries without sanitizing user inputs first.
Over 50% of web application vulnerabilities are input validation related, which allows the
exploitation of code injection techniques. These attacks have proliferated in recent years
causing severe security problems in systems and applications. The SQL injection techniques
are the most widely used and studied but there are other injection techniques associated with
other languages or protocols such as XPath or LDAP.
Preventing the consequences of these kinds of attacks, lies in studying the different code
injection possibilities and in making them public and well known for all programmers and
administrators. In this paper the LDAP injection techniques are analyzed in depth, because all
the web applications based on LDAP trees might be vulnerable to these kinds of attacks.
The key to exploiting injection techniques with LDAP is to manipulate the filters used to search
in the directory services. Using these techniques, an attacker may obtain direct access to the
database underlying an LDAP tree, and thereby to important corporate information.
This can be even more critical because the security of many applications and services relies on
single sign-on environments based on LDAP directories.
Although the vulnerabilities that lead to these consequences are easy to understand and fix,
they persist because of the lack of information about these attacks and their effects. Though
previous references to the exploitation of this kind of vulnerability exist the presented
techniques don´t apply to the vast majority of modern LDAP service implementations. The
main contribution of this paper is the presentation and deep analysis of new LDAP injection
techniques which can be used to exploit these vulnerabilities.
This paper is organized as follows: sections 2 and 3 explain the LDAP fundamentals needed to
understand the techniques presented in the following sections. Section 4 presents the two
typical environments where LDAP injection techniques can be used and exemplify these
techniques with illustrative cases. Section 5 describes how BLIND LDAP Injection attacks can be
done with more examples. Finally, in Section 6, some recommendations for securing systems
against this kind of attack are given.
2. LDAP Overview
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is a protocol for querying and modifying directory
services running over TCP/IP. The most widely used implementations of LDAP services are
Microsoft ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode) and OpenLDAP.
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LDAP directory services are software applications that store and organize information sharing
certain common attributes; the information is structured based on a tree of directory entries,
and the server provides powerful browsing and search capabilities, etcetera. LDAP is objectoriented, therefore every entry in an LDAP directory services is an instance of an object and
must correspond to the rules fixed for the attributes of that object.
Due to the hierarchical nature of LDAP directory services read-based queries are optimized to
the detriment of write-based queries.
LDAP is also based on the client/server model. The most frequent operation is to search for
directory entries using filters. Clients send queries to the server and the server responds with
the directory entries matching these filters.
LDAP filters are defined in the RFC 4515. The structure of these filters can be summarized as:
Filter = ( filtercomp )
Filtercomp = and / or / not / item
And = & filterlist
Or = |filterlist
Not = ! filter
Filterlist = 1*filter
Item= simple / present / substring
Simple = attr filtertype assertionvalue
Filtertype = ”=” / ” ~ =”/ ”>=” / ”<=”
Present = attr = *
Substring = attr ”=” [initial] * [final]
Initial = assertionvalue
Final = assertionvalue
All filters must be in brackets, only a reduced set of logical (AND, OR and NOT) and relational
(=,>=,<=,~=) operators are available to construct them. The special character “*” can be used
to replace one or more characters in the construction of the filters.
Apart from being logic operators, RFC 4256 allows the use of the following standalone symbols
as two special constants:
-
(&)
(|)
-> Absolute TRUE
-> Absolute FALSE
3. Common LDAP environments
LDAP services are a key component for the daily operation in many companies and institutions.
Directory Services such as Microsoft Active Directory, Novell E-Directory and RedHat Directory
Services are based on the LDAP protocol. But there are other applications and services taking
advantage of the LDAP services.
These applications and services used to require different directories (with separate
authentication) to work. For example, a directory was required for the domain, a separate
directory for mailboxes and distribution lists, and more directories for remote access,
databases or web applications. New directories based on LDAP services are multi-purpose,
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working as centralized information repositories for user authentication and enabling single
sign-on environments.
This new scenario increases the productivity by reducing the administration complexity and by
improving security and fault tolerance. In almost every environment, the applications based on
LDAP services use the directory for one of the following purposes:
– Access control (user/password pair verification, user certificates management).
– Privilege management.
– Resource management.
Due to the importance of the LDAP services for the corporate networks, the LDAP servers are
usually placed in the backend with the rest of the database servers. Figure 1 shows the typical
scenario deployed for corporate networks, and it is important to keep this scenario in mind in
order to understand the implications of the injection techniques exposed in following sections.
4. LDAP Injection in Web Applications
LDAP injection attacks are based on similar techniques to SQL injection attacks. Therefore, the
underlying concept is to take advantage of the parameters introduced by the user to generate
the LDAP query. A secure Web application should sanitize the parameters introduced by the
user before constructing and sending the query to the server. In a vulnerable environment
these parameters are not properly filtered and the attacker can inject malicious code.
Fig. 1. Typical scenario for an LDAP-based Web application
Taking into consideration the structure of the LDAP filters explained in section 2 and the
implementations of the most widely used LDAP: ADAM and OpenLDAP, the following
conclusions can be drawn about the code injection. (The following filters are crafted using as
value a non sanitized input from the user):
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– (attribute=value): If the filter used to construct the query lacks a logic operator (OR
or AND), an injection like ”value)(injected_filter” will result in two filters:
(attribute=value)(injected_filter). In the OpenLDAP implementations the second filter
will be ignored, only the first one being executed. In ADAM, a query with two filters
isn´t allowed. Therefore, the injection is useless.
- (|(attribute=value)(second_filter)) or (&(attribute=value)(second_filter)): If the
filter used to construct the query has a logic operator (OR or AND), an injection like
“value)(injected_filter)”
will
result
in
the
following
filter:
(&(attribute=value)(injected_filter)) (second_filter)). Though the filter is not even
syntactically correct, OpenLDAP will start processing it left to right ignoring any
character after the first filter is closed. Some LDAP Client web components will ignore
the second filer, sending to ADAM and OpenLDAP only the first complete one,
therefore allowing the injection.
Some application frameworks will check the filter for correctness before sending it to
the LDAP server. Should this be the case, the filter has to be syntactically correct,
which can be achieved with an injection like:
“value)(injected_filter))(&(1=0” .This will result in two different filters, the second
being ignored: (&(attribute=value)(injected_filter))(&(1=0)(second_filter)).
As the second filter is going to be ignored by the LDAP Server, some components won´t
allow an LDAP query with two filters. In these cases a special injection must be crafted
in order to obtain a single-filter LDAP query. An injection like: “value)(injected_filter”
will result in the following filter: (&(attribute=value)(injected_filter)(second_filter)).
The typical test to know if an application is vulnerable to code injection consists of sending to
the server a query that generates an invalid input. Therefore, if the server returns an error
message, it is clear for the attacker that the server has executed his query and that he can
exploit the code injection techniques. Taking into account the previous discussion, two kinds of
environments can be distinguished: AND injection environments and OR injection
environments.
Fig. 2. LDAP injection
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4.1. AND LDAP Injection
In this case the application constructs the normal query to search in the LDAP directory with
the “&” operator and one or more parameters introduced by the user. For example:
(&(parameter1=value1)(parameter2=value2))
Where value1 and value2 are the values used to perform the search in the LDAP directory. The
attacker can inject code, maintaining a correct filter construction but using the query to
achieve his own objectives.
4.1.1. Example 1: Access Control Bypass
A login page has two text box fields for entering user name and password (figure 3). Uname
and Pwd are the user inputs for USER and PASWORD. To verify the existence of the
user/password pair supplied by a client, an LDAP search filter is constructed and sent to the
LDAP server:
(&(USER=Uname)(PASSWORD=Pwd))
If an attacker enters a valid username, for example, slisberger, and injects the appropriate
sequence following this name, the password check can be bypassed.
Making Uname=slisberger)(&)) and introducing any string as the Pwd value, the following
query is constructed and sent to the server:
(& (USER=slisberger)(&))(PASSWORD=Pwd))
Fig. 3. Login page with LDAP injection
Only the first filter is processed by the LDAP server, that is, only the query
(&(USER=slisberger)(&)) is processed. This query is always true, so the attacker gains access to
the system without having a valid password.
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Fig. 4. Home page shown to the attacker after avoiding the access control
4.1.2. Example 2: Elevation of Privileges
For example, suppose that the following query lists all the documents visible for the users with
a low security level:
(&(directory=documents)(security_level=low))
Fig. 5. Low security level documents.
Where “documents” is the user entry for the first parameter and low is the value for the
second. If the attacker wants to list all the documents visible for the high security level, he can
use an injection like “documents)(security_level=*))(&(directory=documents” resulting in the
following filter:
(&(directory=documents)(security_level=*))(&(directory=documents)(security_level=low))
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Fig. 6. All security levels documents
The LDAP server will only process the first filter ignoring the second one, therefore, only the
following query will be processed: (&(directory=documents)(security level=*)), while (&
(directory=documents)(security level=low)) will be ignored.
As a result, a list with all the documents available for the users with all security levels will be
displayed for the attacker although he doesn’t have privileges to see them.
4.2. OR LDAP Injection
In this case the application constructs the normal query to search in the LDAP directory with
the “|” operator and one or more parameters introduced by the user. For example:
(|(parameter1=value1)(parameter2=value2))
Where value1 and value2 are the values used to perform the search in the LDAP directory. The
attacker can inject code, maintaining a correct filter construction but using the query to
achieve his own objectives.
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4.2.1. Example 1: Information Disclosure
Suppose a resources explorer allows users to know the resources available in the system
(printers, scanners, storage systems, etc…). This is a typical OR LDAP Injection case, because
the query used to show the available resources is:
(|(type=Rsc1)(type=Rsc2))
Rsc1 and Rsc2 represent the different kinds of resources in the system. In figure 7,
Rsc1=printer and Rsc2=scanner to show all the available printers and scanners in the system.
Fig. 7. Resources available to the user from the Resources Consoles Management
If the attacker enters Rsc1=printer)(uid=*), the following query is sent to the server:
(|(type=printer)(uid=*))(type=scanner))
The LDAP server responds with all the printer and user objects.
Fig. 8. Information available to the attacker after the LDAP injection
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5. Blind LDAP Injection
Suppose that an attacker can infer from the server responses, although the application does
not show error messages, the code injected in the LDAP filter generates a valid response (true
result) or an error (false result). The attacker could use this behavior to ask the server true or
false questions. These types of attacks are named “Blind Attacks”. Blind LDAP Injection attacks
are slower than classic ones but they can be easily implemented, since they are based on
binary logic, and they let the attacker extract information from the LDAP Directory.
5.1. AND Blind LDAP Injection
Suppose a web application wants to list all available Epson printers from an LDP directory
where error messages are not returned. The application sends the following LDAP search filter:
(& (objectClass=printer)(type=Epson*))
With this query, if there are any Epson printers available, icons are shown to the client,
otherwise no icon is shown. If the attacker performs a Blind LDAP injection attack injecting
“*)(objectClass=*))(& (objectClass=void“, the web application will construct the following LDAP
query:
(& (objectClass=*)(objectClass=*))(&(objectClass=void)(type=Epson*))
Only the first complete LDAP filter will process:
(&(objectClass=*)(objectClass=*))
As a result, the printer icon must be shown to the client, because this query always obtains
results: the filter objectClass=* always returns an object. When an icon is shown the response
is true, otherwise the response is false.
From this point, it is easy to use blind injection techniques. For example, the following
injections can be constructed:
(&(objectClass=*)(objectClass=users))(&(objectClass=foo)(type=Epson*))
(&(objectClass=*)(objectClass=resources))(&(objectClass=foo)(type=Epson*))
This set of code injections allows the attacker to infer the different objectClass values possible
in the LDAP directory service. When the response web page contains at least one printer icon,
the objectClass value exists (TRUE), on the other hand the objectClass value does not exist or
there is no access to it, and so no icon, the objectclass value does not exist(FALSE).
Blind LDAP injection techniques allow the attacker access to all information using TRUE/FALSE
questions.
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5.2. OR Blind LDAP Injection
In this case, the logic used to infer the desired information is the opposite, due to the presence
of the OR logical operator. Following with the same example, the injection in an OR
environment should be:
(|(objectClass=void)(objectClass=void))(&(objectClass=void)(type=Epson*))
This LDAP query obtains no objects from the LDAP directory service, therefore the printer icon
is not shown to the client (FALSE). If any icon is shown in the response web page then, it is a
TRUE response. Thus, an attacker could inject the following LDAP filters for gathering
information:
(|(objectClass=void)(objectClass=users))(&(objectClass=void)(type=Epson*))
(|(objectClass=void)(objectClass=resources))(&(objectClass=void)(type=Epson*))
5.3. Exploitation example
In this section, an LDAP environment has been implemented to show the use of the injection
techniques explained above and also to describe the possible effects of the exploitation of
these vulnerabilities and the important impact of these attacks in current systems security.
In this example the page printerstatus.php receives a parameter idprinter to construct the
following LDAP search filter:
(&(idprinter=Value1)(objectclass=printer))
5.3.1. Discovering Attributes
Blind LDAP Injection techniques can be used to obtain sensitive information from the LDAP
directory services by taking advantage of the AND operator at the beginning of the LDAP
search filter built into the web application. For example, given the attributes defined for the
printer object shown in figure 9 and the response web page of this LDAP query in figure 10 for
Value1=HPLaserJet2100,
Fig. 9. Attributes defined for the printer object
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Fig. 10. Normal behavior of the application
an attribute discovering attack can be performed by making these following LDAP injections:
(&(idprinter=HPLaserJet2100)(ipaddress=*))(objectclass=printer))
Fig 11: Response web page when the attribute does not exist
( & (idprinter=HPLaserJet2100)(department=*))(objectclass=printer))
Fig 12: Response web page when the attribute exists
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Obviously, the attacker can infer from these results which attributes exist and which do not. In
the first case, the information about the printer is not given by the application because the
attribute ipaddress does not exist or it is not accessible (FALSE). On the other hand, in the
second case, the response web page shows the printer status and therefore, the attribute
department exists in the LDAP directory and it is possible access to it.
Furthermore, with blind LDAP injection attacks the values of some of these attributes can be
obtained. For example, suppose that the attacker wants to know the value of the department
attribute: he can use booleanization and charset reduction techniques, explained in the next
sections, to infer it.
5.3.2. Booleanization
An attacker can extract the value from attributes using alphabetic or numeric search. The crux
of the idea is to transform a complex value (e.g. a string or a date) into a list of TRUE/FALSE
questions. This mechanism, usually called booleanization, is summarized in figure 13 and can
be applied in many different ways.
Fig. 13. Booleanization
Suppose that the attacker wants to know the value of the department attribute. The process
would be the following:
( & (idprinter=HPLaserJet2100)(department=a*))(objectclass=printer))
Fig. 14. FALSE. Value doesn´t start with ‘a’
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(&(idprinter=HPLaserJet2100)(department=f*))(objectclass=printer))
Fig. 15. TRUE. Value starts with ‘f’
(&(idprinter=HPLaserJet2100)(department=fa*))(objectclass=printer))
Fig. 16. FALSE. Value doesn´t start with ‘fa’
(&(idprinter=HPLaserJet2100)(department=fi*))(objectclass=printer))
Fig. 17. TRUE. Value starts with ‘fi’
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As shown in figure 9, the department value in this example is financial. The first try with the
character ‘a’ does not obtain any printer information (figure 14) therefore, the first character
is not an ’a’. After testing with the rest of the characters, the only one that obtains the normal
behavior from the application is ’f’ (figure 15). Regarding the second character, the only one
that results in the normal operation of the application is ’i’ (figure 17) and so on. Following the
process, the department value can be obtained.
This algorithm can be also used for numeric values. In order to perform this, the
booleanization process should use ‘greater than or equal to’ (>=) and ‘less than or equal to’
(<=) operators.
5.3.3 Charset Reduction
An attacker can use charset reduction to decrease the number of requests needed for obtain
the information. In order to accomplish this, he uses wildcards to test if the given character is
present *anywhere* in the value, e.g.:
(&(idprinter=HPLaserJet2100)(department=*b*))(objectclass=printer))
Fig. 18. FALSE. Character ’b’ is not in the department value
( & (idprinter=HPLaserJet2100)(department=*n*))(objectclass=printer))
Fig. 19. TRUE. Character ’n’ is in the department value
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Figure 18 shows the response web page when the character ’b’ is tested: no results are sent
from the LDAP directory service so no letter ‘b’ is present, but in figure 19 a normal response
web page is shown, meaning that the character ’n’ is in the department value.
Through this process, the set of characters comprising the department value can be obtained.
Once the charset reduction is done, only the characters discovered will be used in the
booleanization process, thereby decreasing the number of requests needed.
6. Securing Applications against Blind LDAP Injection & LDAP Injection
attacks
The attacks presented in the previous sections are performed on the application layer,
therefore firewalls and intrusion detection mechanisms on the network layer have no effect on
preventing any of these LDAP injections. However, general security recommendations for LDAP
directory services can mitigate these vulnerabilities or minimize their impact by applying
minimum exposure point and minimum privileges principles.
Mechanisms used to prevent code injection techniques include defensive programming,
sophisticated input validation, dynamic checks and static source code analysis. The work on
mitigating LDAP injections must involve similar techniques.
It has been demonstrated in the previous sections that LDAP injection attacks are performed
by including special characters in the parameters sent from the client to the server. It is clear
therefore that it is very important to check and sanitize the variables used to construct the
LDAP filters before sending the queries to the server.
In conclusion, we see that parentheses, asterisks, logical (AND “&”, OR “|” and NOT “!”) and
relational (=,>=,<=,~=) operators must be filtered at the application layer.
Whenever possible, values used to construct the LDAP search filter must be checked against a
list of valid values in the Application Layer before sending the query to the LDAP server.
7. References
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“LDAP Injection: Are your Web applications Vulnerable?”, Sacha Faust. SPI Dynamics
URL: http://www.spidynamics.com/support/whitepapers/LDAPinjection.pdf
URL2: http://www.networkdls.com/Articles/LDAPinjection.pdf
“Blind SQL Injection Automation Techniques”, Cameron Hotchkies, BlackHat Conferences 2004.
URL:https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-04/bh-us-04-hotchkies/bh-us-04hotchkies.pdf
“Blind XPath Injection”, Amit Klein. SANCTUM.
URL:http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/papers/bypass/Blind_XPath_Injection_20040518.pdf
“Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): The Protocol”, J. Sermersheim, RFC 4511.
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4511.txt
“LDAP Search Filters”, M. Smith & T. Howes, RFC 4515.
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4515.txt
"Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Technical Specification Road Map”, K. Zeilenga,
Networking Working Group, LDAP Foundation, RFC, The OpenGroup.
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4510.txt
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“Understanding LDAP - Design and Implementation”, Steven Tuttle, Ami Ehlenberger,
Ramakrishna Gorthi, Jay Leiserson, Richard Macbeth, Nathan Owen, Sunil Ranahandola,
Michael Storrs & Chunhui Yang, IBM.
URL: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg244986.pdf
“OpenLDAP admin Guide”, OpenLDAP.org.
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“Microsoft Active Directory Technologies”, Microsoft Corporation.
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“RedHat Directory Services. RedHat Deployment Guide”, RedHat.
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Single Sign-On”, The OpenGroup.
URL: http://www.opengroup.org/security/sso/
"Oracle Internet Directory: Documentation”,Oracle.
URL: http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oid.html
“Time-Based Blind SQL Injection using heavy queries”, Chema Alonso, Daniel Kachakil, Rodolfo
Bordón y Antonio Guzmán.
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmvp/sv0907.mspx
Contact information:
- Chema Alonso
chema@informatica64.com
http://elladodelmal.blogspot.com
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