Security Report: Subdomain Takeover of https://trade-manager-frontend.litprotocol.com/ Pointing to Railway App

[aparcekarl]

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SDK version

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Lit Network

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Description of the bug/issue

Bug type = Server Security Misconfiguration > Misconfigured DNS > High Impact Subdomain Takeover

Priority= P2 (HIGH)

Description

Hi litprotocol Team,

Recently, i just found some of your domain (*litprotocol.com) pointing to the vulnerable Third Party site "Railway". This issue is about your main domain being misconfigured.

https://trade-manager-frontend.litprotocol.com/

Reconnaissance

I Verified the Cname record via MX Toolbox for DNS record check

I discovered that this subdomain has an error with Railway, meaning a non-connection with any project. Based on my past discoveries, this is a possible subdomain takeover

Proof of Concept

Impact:

Based on the vulnerability. The impact here is the attacker can have the full access to the subdomain's content, which can create a full copy of the Web Application Used by litprotocol.com

One Example:

Initiating Malicious Transactions

The impact of this is that the transactions are being requested from a reputable project, so people would not hesitate to sign the transaction since the subdomain is legitimate *litprotocol.com The process is to connect to the blockchain via Web3 and a crypto wallet such as MetaMask on the victim’s browser to process the transaction to an attacker-owned address.

Remediations

Check your DNS-configuration for subdomains pointing to services, not in use
Set up your external service so it fully listens to your wildcard DNS.
Our advice is to keep your DNS entries constantly vetted and restricted.
Preventing subdomain takeovers is a matter of order of operations in lifecycle management for virtual hosts and DNS. Depending on the size of the organization, this may require communication and coordination across multiple departments, which can only increase the likelihood of a vulnerable misconfiguration.
Create an inventory of all of your organization’s domains and their hosting providers, and update it as things change, to ensure that nothing is left dangling.

Thank you

Severity of the bug

Risk Breakdown

Risk: Severe
Difficulty to Exploit: Easy
Complexity: Easy
Weakness Categories: Deployment Misconfiguration/Stored XSS/Authentication Bypass (CWE: 16)
CVSS2 Score: 9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N)

Steps To Reproduce

Go to Railway and Login your account
Create a new project and deploy a sample app
Go to Settings>Domains
Then add the vulnerable subdomain trade-manager-frontend.litprotocol.com
Ownership is done.

Link to code

trade-manager-frontend.litprotocol.com

Anything else?

[aparcekarl]