CVE-2023-36474

Interactsh is an open-source tool for detecting out-of-band interactions. Domains configured with interactsh server prior to version 1.0.0 were vulnerable to subdomain takeover for a specific subdomain, i.e app. Interactsh server used to create cname entries for app pointing to projectdiscovery.github.io as default, which intended to used for hosting interactsh web client using GitHub pages. This is a security issue with a self-hosted interactsh server in which the user may not have configured a web client but still have a CNAME entry pointing to GitHub pages, making them vulnerable to subdomain takeover. This allows a threat actor to host / run arbitrary client side code (cross-site scripting) in a user's browser when browsing the vulnerable subdomain. Version 1.0.0 fixes this issue by making CNAME optional, rather than default.

Interactsh is an open-source tool for detecting out-of-band interactions. Domains configured with interactsh server prior to version 1.0.0 were vulnerable to subdomain takeover for a specific subdomain, i.e app. Interactsh server used to create cname entries for app pointing to projectdiscovery.github.io as default, which intended to used for hosting interactsh web client using GitHub pages. This is a security issue with a self-hosted interactsh server in which the user may not have configured a web client but still have a CNAME entry pointing to GitHub pages, making them vulnerable to subdomain takeover. This allows a threat actor to host / run arbitrary client side code (cross-site scripting) in a user's browser when browsing the vulnerable subdomain. Version 1.0.0 fixes this issue by making CNAME optional, rather than default.

A domain configured with interactsh server was vulnerable to subdomain takeover for specfic subdomain, i.e app, Interactsh server before < 1.0.0 used to create cname entries for app pointing to projectdiscovery.github.io as default which intended to used for hosting interactsh web client using GitHub pages. It turns out to be a security issue with a self-hosted interactsh server in which the user may not have configured a web client but still have a cname entry pointing to GitHub pages, making them vulnerable to subdomain takeover.

This issue was initially reported to us as a subdomain takeover for one of our domains that runs interactsh server by Melih at [email protected], and after conducting an internal investigation, we determined that it was an issue with the default config of interactsh server affecting all the server running self-hosted instance of interactsh, as a result - cname entry has been removed in the latest release.

Impact

This allows one to host / run arbitrary client side code (XSS) in a user's browser when browsing the vulnerable subdomain, for more details on the impact, please read this detailed blogpost from Detectify.

Patches

Update to Interactsh server v1.0.0 with go install -v github.com/projectdiscovery/interactsh/cmd/interactsh-server@latest

References

https://github.com/projectdiscovery/interactsh/issues/136

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

• Email us at [email protected]

Interactsh is an open-source tool for detecting out-of-band interactions. Domains configured with interactsh server prior to version 1.0.0 were vulnerable to subdomain takeover for a specific subdomain, i.e app. Interactsh server used to create cname entries for app pointing to projectdiscovery.github.io as default, which intended to used for hosting interactsh web client using GitHub pages. This is a security issue with a self-hosted interactsh server in which the user may not have configured a web client but still have a CNAME entry pointing to GitHub pages, making them vulnerable to subdomain takeover. This allows a threat actor to host / run arbitrary client side code (cross-site scripting) in a user's browser when browsing the vulnerable subdomain. Version 1.0.0 fixes this issue by making CNAME optional, rather than default.

Interactsh is an open-source tool for detecting out-of-band interactions. Domains configured with interactsh server prior to version 1.0.0 were vulnerable to subdomain takeover for a specific subdomain, i.e app. Interactsh server used to create cname entries for app pointing to projectdiscovery.github.io as default, which intended to used for hosting interactsh web client using GitHub pages. This is a security issue with a self-hosted interactsh server in which the user may not have configured a web client but still have a CNAME entry pointing to GitHub pages, making them vulnerable to subdomain takeover. This allows a threat actor to host / run arbitrary client side code (cross-site scripting) in a user's browser when browsing the vulnerable subdomain. Version 1.0.0 fixes this issue by making CNAME optional, rather than default.

A domain configured with interactsh server was vulnerable to subdomain takeover for specfic subdomain, i.e app, Interactsh server before < 1.0.0 used to create cname entries for app pointing to projectdiscovery.github.io as default which intended to used for hosting interactsh web client using GitHub pages. It turns out to be a security issue with a self-hosted interactsh server in which the user may not have configured a web client but still have a cname entry pointing to GitHub pages, making them vulnerable to subdomain takeover.

This issue was initially reported to us as a subdomain takeover for one of our domains that runs interactsh server by Melih at [email protected], and after conducting an internal investigation, we determined that it was an issue with the default config of interactsh server affecting all the server running self-hosted instance of interactsh, as a result - cname entry has been removed in the latest release.

Impact

This allows one to host / run arbitrary client side code (XSS) in a user's browser when browsing the vulnerable subdomain, for more details on the impact, please read this detailed blogpost from Detectify.

Patches

Update to Interactsh server v1.0.0 with go install -v github.com/projectdiscovery/interactsh/cmd/interactsh-server@latest

References

https://github.com/projectdiscovery/interactsh/issues/136

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

• Email us at [email protected]

Subdomain Takeover in Interactsh server in github.com/projectdiscovery/interactsh