CVE-2024-53275

GHSL-2024-091: DNS rebinding attack in home-gallery

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Dec 23, 2024
Updated
Feb 18, 2025
Reserved
Nov 19, 2024

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Description

Home-Gallery.org is a self-hosted open-source web gallery to browse personal photos and videos. In 1.15.0 and earlier, the default setup of home-gallery is vulnerable to DNS rebinding. Home-gallery is set up without TLS and user authentication by default, leaving it vulnerable to DNS rebinding. In this attack, an attacker will ask a user to visit their website. The attacker website will then change the DNS records of their domain from their IP address to the internal IP address of the home-gallery instance. To tell which IP addresses are valid, we can rebind a subdomain to each IP address we want to check, and see if there is a response. Once potential candidates have been found, the attacker can launch the attack by reading the response of the web server after the IP address has changed. When the attacker domain is fetched, the response will be from the home-gallery instance, not the attacker website, because the IP address has been changed. Due to a lack of authentication, home-gallery photos can then be extracted by the attacker website.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.05.3 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-350 Reliance on Reverse DNS Resolution for a Security-Critical Action

Affected Products

ProductVersions
home-galleryxemle
  • <= 1.15.0Affected

References

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