In this blog post, you will learn about a new vulnerability discovered in a popular open source data warehouse software: DataTables. DataTables is a dashboard framework that lets you create beautiful, interactive reports from your data. DataTables is used by many large organizations and companies to create their business dashboards. The following tutorial will show you how to exploit this vulnerability to obtain complete control of DataTables end user’s session, including the ability to inject malicious code into the end user’s report.
end user. In the following tutorial, we will exploit the DataTables vulnerability to obtain complete control of the end user’s session. We will then execute malicious code on behalf of the end user to steal their session ID and even install a backdoor. You need to read this tutorial carefully and follow all instructions to exploit this vulnerability to the fullest extent.
Overview of the DataTables Vulnerability
DataTables is an open source data dashboard framework that lets you create beautiful, interactive reports from your data. DataTables is used by many large organizations and companies to create their business dashboards. In this tutorial, we will exploit the DataTables vulnerability to obtain complete control of the end user’s session. We will then execute malicious code on behalf of the end user to steal their session ID and even install a backdoor.
The following is a list of the steps:
1) Configure your staging server with our SQLmap payload script
2) Write a SQLmap command file for your target organization's DataTables instance
3) Execute the command file against your target organization's DataTables instance using SQLmap
4) Use Meterpreter's callback feature to execute commands on behalf of the victim's session
5) Retrieve the victim's session ID
6) Retrieve credentials with which they can login back into their organization as Administrator
7) Install a backdoor on the system and have full access to it
8) Initiate exploitation using Metasploit Framework
Overview of DataTables
DataTables is a dashboard framework that lets you create beautiful, interactive reports from your data. It provides tools for managing, displaying, and filtering data as well as common charting libraries. DataTables runs on top of jQuery and uses AJAX to make changes happen without reloading the page.
Step 1: Start DataTables on your local machine
DataTables is a dashboard framework that lets you create beautiful, interactive reports from your data. DataTables is used by many large organizations and companies to create their business dashboards.
To start DataTables on your local machine, open a terminal window and run the following command:
sudo npm install -g datatables-cli
This will install the DataTables command line interface.
Objectives of this DataTables Vulnerability Tutorial
The main objective of this tutorial is to exploit a vulnerability in DataTables in order to gain complete control of the end user's session. This can be done by simply stealing the session ID from the end user and using it to execute malicious code on their behalf. We will also cover how to exploit this vulnerability further by installing a backdoor into their system as well.
Timeline
Published on: 10/11/2022 19:15:00 UTC
Last modified on: 10/14/2022 14:50:00 UTC