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Lab: Web cache poisoning via a fat GET request

PRACTITIONER

This lab is vulnerable to web cache poisoning. It accepts GET requests that have a body, but does not include the body in the cache key. A user regularly visits this site's home page using Chrome.

To solve the lab, poison the cache with a response that executes alert(1) in the victim's browser.

ACCESS THE LAB

Solution

  1. Observe that every page imports the script /js/geolocate.js, executing the callback function setCountryCookie(). Send the request GET /js/geolocate.js?callback=setCountryCookie to Burp Repeater.

  2. Notice that you can control the name of the function that is called in the response by passing in a duplicate callback parameter via the request body. Also notice that the cache key is still derived from the original callback parameter in the request line:

    GET /js/geolocate.js?callback=setCountryCookie … callback=arbitraryFunction HTTP/1.1 200 OK X-Cache-Key: /js/geolocate.js?callback=setCountryCookie … arbitraryFunction({"country" : "United Kingdom"})
  3. Send the request again, but this time pass in alert(1) as the callback function. Check that you can successfully poison the cache.
  4. Remove any cache busters and re-poison the cache. The lab will solve when the victim user visits any page containing this resource import URL.

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