Information disclosure in error messages¶

Description¶

This lab’s verbose error messages reveal that it is using a vulnerable version of a third-party framework.

Reproduction and proof of concept¶

1. With Burp running, open one of the product pages.

2. In Burp, go to Proxy > HTTP history and notice that the GET request for product pages contains a productID parameter. Send the GET /product?productId=1 request to Burp Repeater. Note that your productId might be different depending on which product page you loaded.

3. In Burp Repeater, change the value of the productId parameter to a non-integer data type, such as a string. Send the request. GET /product?productId="example"

4. The unexpected data type causes an exception, and a full stack trace is displayed in the response. This reveals that the lab is using Apache Struts 2 2.3.31.

5. Go back to the lab, click “Submit solution”, and enter 2 2.3.31 to solve the lab.

Exploitability¶

An attacker will need to obtain and submit the version number of this framework.