Python - GraphQL Introspection
Running the app on Docker
Now that the app is running let's go hacking!
Reconnaissance
As soon as we browse on http://0.0.0.0:5000
we see the few posts published by 2 users
Exploitation
We want to use the introspection feature (enabled) in this case, to understand more about what queries are supported.
Let' use the GraphiQL
UI to send queries to the backend and discover what is available.
Go to http://0.0.0.0:5000/graphql
. We can query the generic __schema
using:
The application gives us interesting Types
. Let's explore the UserObject
one. If we build a more complex query we can ask for more information, exploring every field available. Let's send the following:
In this case, for each field we we want to know what are the subfields and of which type.
The application will answer with:
BINGO! We have some good information here
We can see that there is an interesting field isAdmin
, that we can use to find out who is the admin of the application.
Now we just need to query all the Users. To do that, let's see if there is a query available. We can use the following syntax:
That will give us the allUsers
query. Now we need to understand what are the fields. We can do that in different ways, using GraphiQL or doing some more introspection. In this case we use GraphiQL, sending the following query:
Remediation
Implement authorization on graphql endpoint. Although authenticated users could query the information, you should not map sensitive information into the type defined into the schema.
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