Summary
Azure API Management is an API gateway service meant to help organizations to create, manage, secure,
and monitor APIs across all of their environments. Researchers found three high severity vulnerabilities
in the service, two of which are SSRF (Server Side Request Forgery) vulnerabilities, and the third is a
path traversal bug. The SSRF issues affected the Azure API Management CORS proxy (which handles schema
retrieval) and hosting proxy (which routes API requests to the correct server). An attacker successful
in exploiting each of these SSRF vulnerabilities could fake requests from these legitimate servers and
thereby gain access to internal Azure services. However, the researchers did not determine the effective
impact of this access level, and it's therefore possible that Azure had security measures in place which
would have blocked further lateral movement. The path-traversal vulnerability allowed for an unrestricted
file upload to the Azure developer portal server. The portal's authenticated mode allows users to upload
static files and images to be displayed within the portal website, but this vulnerability could have allowed
an attacker to upload code instead, and then potentially execute it on the server itself.
Affected Services
Azure API Management
Remediation
None required
Tracked CVEs
No tracked CVEs
References
https://ermetic.com/blog/azure/when-good-apis-go-bad-uncovering-3-azure-api-management-vulnerabilities/https://twitter.com/terminatorLM/status/1654110442082516992
Contributed by https://github.com/korniko98
Entry Status
Finalized
Disclosure Date
Wed, Dec 21st, 2022
Exploitablity Period
-
Known ITW Exploitation
-
Detection Methods
-
Piercing Index Rating
-
Discovered by
Liv Matan, Ermetic
