Broken Crystals is a benchmark application that uses modern technologies and implements a set of common security vulnerabilities.
The application contains:
Note The GraphQL API does not yet support all of the endpoints the REST API does.
# build server
npm ci && npm run build
# build client
npm ci --prefix public && npm run build --prefix public
#build and start dockers with Postgres DB, nginx and server
docker-compose --file=docker-compose.local.yml up -d
#rebuild dockers
docker-compose --file=docker-compose.local.yml up -d --buildHelm command example:
$ helm repo add brokencrystals https://neuralegion.github.io/brokencrystals/
$ helm upgrade --install --namespace distributor broken \
--set repeaterID=5r....Dz \
--set token=n..r.nexp.k..5 \
--set cluster=hotel.playground.neuralegion.com \
--set timeout=40000 \
--set repeaterImageTag=v11.5.0-next.4 \
--set ingress.url=broken.k3s.brokencrystals.nexploit.app \
--set ingress.cert=distributorwildcard \
--set ingress.authlevel=- brokencrystals/brokencrystals --waitIn the path ./test you can find tests to run with Jest.
First, you have to get a Bright API key, navigate to your .env file, and paste your Bright API key as the value of the BRIGHT_TOKEN variable:
BRIGHT_TOKEN = <your_API_key_here>Then, you can modify a URL to your instance of the application by setting the SEC_TESTER_TARGET environment variable in your .env file:
SEC_TESTER_TARGET = http://localhost:8090Finally, you can start tests with SecTester against these endpoints as follows:
npm run test:e2eFull configuration & usage examples can be found in our demo project;
Broken JWT Authentication - The application includes multiple endpoints that generate and validate several types of JWT tokens. The main login API, used by the UI, is utilizing one of the endpoints while others are available via direct call and described in Swagger.
Brute Force Login - Checks if the application user is using a weak password. The default setup contains user = admin with password = admin
Common Files - Tries to find common files that shouldn’t be publicly exposed (such as “phpinfo”, “.htaccess”, “ssh-key.priv”, etc…). The application contains .htacess and Nginx.conf files under the client's root directory and additional files can be added by placing them under the public/public directory and running a build of the client.
Cookie Security - Checks if the cookie has the “secure” and HTTP only flags. The application returns two cookies (session and bc-calls-counter cookie), both without secure and HttpOnly flags.
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) -
Default Login Location - The login endpoint is available under /api/auth/login.
Directory Listing - The Nginx config file under the nginx-conf directory is configured to allow directory listing.
DOM Cross-Site Scripting - Open the landing page with the dummy query param that contains DOM content (including script), add the provided DOM into the page, and execute it.
File Upload - The application allows uploading an avatar photo of the authenticated user. The server doesn't perform any sort of validation on the uploaded file.
Full Path Disclosure - All errors returned by the server include the full path of the file where the error has occurred. The errors can be triggered by passing wrong values as parameters or by modifying the bc-calls-counter cookie to a non-numeric value.
Headers Security Check - The application is configured with misconfigured security headers. The list of headers is available in the headers.configurator.interceptor.ts file. A user can pass the no-sec-headers query param to any API to prevent the server from sending the headers.
HTML Injection - Both forms testimonial and mailing list subscription forms allow HTML injection.
CSS Injection - The login page is vulnerable to CSS Injections through a url parameter: https://brokencrystals.com/userlogin?logobgcolor=transparent.
HTTP Method fuzzer - The server supports uploading, deletion, and getting the content of a file via /put.raw addition to the URL. The actual implementation using a regular upload endpoint of the server and the /put.raw endpoint is mapped in Nginx.
LDAP Injection - The login request returns an LDAP query for the user's profile, which can be used as a query parameter in /api/users/ldap query query parameter. The returned query can be modified to search for other users. If the structure of the LDAP query is changed, a detailed LDAP error will be returned (with LDAP server information and hierarchy).
Local File Inclusion (LFI) - The /api/files endpoint returns any file on the server from the path that is provided in the path param. The UI uses this endpoint to load crystal images on the landing page.
Mass Assignment - You can add to user admin privilegies upon creating user or updating userdata. When you creating a new user /api/users/basic you can use additional hidden field in body request { ... "isAdmin" : true }. If you are trying to edit userdata with PUT request /api/users/one/{email}/info you can add this additional field mentioned above. For checking admin permissions there is one more endpoint: /api/users/one/{email}/adminpermission.
Open Database - The index.html file includes a link to manifest URL, which returns the server's configuration, including a DB connection string.
OS Command Injection - The /api/spawn endpoint spawns a new process using the command in the command query parameter. The endpoint is not referenced from UI.
Remote File Inclusion (RFI) - The /api/files endpoint returns any file on the server from the path that is provided in the path param. The UI uses this endpoint to load crystal images on the landing page.
Secret Tokens - The index.html file includes a link to manifest URL, which returns the server's configuration, including a Google API key.
Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) - The endpoint /api/render receives a plain text body and renders it using the doT (http://github.com/olado/dot) templating engine.
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) - The endpoint /api/file receives the path and type query parameters and returns the content of the file in path with Content-Type value from the type parameter. The endpoint supports relative and absolute file names, HTTP/S requests, as well as metadata URLs of Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, and DigitalOcean.
There are specific endpoints for each cloud provider as well - /api/file/google, /api/file/aws, /api/file/azure, /api/file/digital_ocean.
SQL injection (SQLi) - The /api/testimonials/count endpoint receives and executes SQL query in the query parameter. Similarly, the /api/products/views endpoint utilizes the x-product-name header to update the number of views for a product. However, both of these parameters can be exploited to inject SQL code, making these endpoints vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.
Unvalidated Redirect - The endpoint /api/goto redirects the client to the URL provided in the url query parameter. The UI references the endpoint in the header (while clicking on the site's logo) and as an href source for the Terms and Services link in the footer.
Version Control System - The client_s build process copies SVN, GIT, and Mercurial source control directories to the client application root and they are accessible under Nginx root.
XML External Entity (XXE) - The endpoint, POST /api/metadata, receives URL-encoded XML data in the xml query parameter, processes it with enabled external entities (using libxmnl library) and returns the serialized DOM. Additionally, for a request that tries to load file:///etc/passwd as an entity, the endpoint returns a mocked up content of the file. Additionally, the endpoint PUT /api/users/one/{email}/photo accepts SVG images, which are proccessed with libxml library and stored on the server, as well as sent back to the client.
JavaScript Vulnerabilities Scanning - Index.html includes an older version of the jQuery library with known vulnerabilities.
AO1 Vertical access controls - The page /dashboard can be reached despite the rights of user.
Broken Function Level Authorization - The endpoint DELETE /users/one/:id/photo?isAdmin= can be used to delete any user's profile photo by enumerating the user IDs and setting the isAdmin query parameter to true, as there is no validation of it's value on the server side.
IFrame Injection - The /testimonials page a URL parameter videosrc which directly controls the src attribute of the IFrame at the bottom of this page. Similarly, the home page takes a URL param maptitle which directly controls the title attribute of the IFrame at the CONTACT section of this page.
Excessive Data Exposure - The /api/users/one/:email is supposed to expose only basic user information required to be displayed on the UI, but it also returns the user's phone number which is unnecessary information.
Business Constraint Bypass - The /api/products/latest endpoint supports a limit parameter, which by default is set to 3. The /api/products endpoint is a password protected endpoint which returns all of the products, yet if you change the limit param of /api/products/latest to be high enough you could get the same results without the need to be authenticated.
ID Enumeration - There are a few ID Enumeration vulnerabilities:
/users/one/:id/photo?isAdmin= which is used to delete a user's profile picture is vulnerable to ID Enumeration together with Broken Function Level Authorization./users/id/:id endpoint returns user info by ID, it doesn't require neither authentication nor authorization.XPATH Injection - The /api/partners/* endpoint contains the following XPATH injection vulnerabilities:
/api/partners/partnerLogin is supposed to login with the user's credentials in order to obtain account info. It's vulnerable to an XPATH injection using boolean based payloads. When exploited it'll retrieve data about other users as well. You can use ' or '1'='1 in the password field to exploit the EP./api/partners/searchPartners is supposed to search partners' names by a given keyword. It's vulnerable to an XPATH injection using string detection payloads. When exploited, it can grant access to sensitive information like passwords and even lead to full data leak. You can use ')] | //password%00// or ')] | //* | a[(' to exploit the EP./api/partners/query is a raw XPATH injection endpoint. You can put whatever you like there. It is not referenced in the frontend, but it is an exposed API endpoint.