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Insecure Firebase Database

ID: insecure-firebase-database

Severity: high

Author: rafaelwdornelas

Tags: firebase,google,misconfig,intrusive

Description

Section titled “Description”

If the owner of the app have set the security rules as true for both “read” & “write” an attacker can probably dump database and write his own data to firebase database.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: insecure-firebase-database


info:
  name: Insecure Firebase Database
  author: rafaelwdornelas
  severity: high
  description: If the owner of the app have set the security rules as true for both "read" & "write" an attacker can probably dump database and write his own data to firebase database.
  reference:
    - https://blog.securitybreached.org/2020/02/04/exploiting-insecure-firebase-database-bugbounty
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
  tags: firebase,google,misconfig,intrusive


http:
  - raw:
      - |
        PUT /{{randstr}}.json HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/json


        {"id":"insecure-firebase-database"}
      - |
        GET /{{randstr}}.json HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body_2
        words:
          - '{"id":"insecure-firebase-database"}'


      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - "application/json"


      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
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Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/misconfiguration/google/insecure-firebase-database.yaml"

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