How I got Hall of Fame in NASA

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Title: URL Misconfiguration Leads to Internal Source Code Disclosure

Severity: P4

Bug Type: Information disclosure

Affected domain: subdomain.nasa.gov

Impact: Internal Source code disclosure leads to gain additional information to bypass one of the NASA admin pages.

Before spitting the recon, and Steps to reproduce, I hunted for 31 days in NASA and found 8 bugs, in which one got triaged. so there are many recon parts I did for NASA, which I will share in my next blog, as of now I will say how I used my recon to find this bug.

Google dorks:

so this was the dork used here, my aim was to hunt for XSS so I visited each and every subdomain slowly, and found one ODD subdomain, which I hadn’t encountered in my 31 days of hunting. So it had an admin page, and upon clicking on each URL, I found a parameter named https://subdomain.nasa.gov/docs/site/showdoc?mnemonic=NEWS_LETTER upon disturbing the URL by giving, ‘ single colon’ I got the following error.

I Checked for SQLI but it was not exploitable, but my instinct said that I could something get from this subdomain.So started to visit each and every link that was posted on the site manually, yes you are right, to find this bug I just did a manual fuzzing, and to my surprise just upon visiting a URL, I found a link where the whole page leaked internal pearl code.

So this is just one part of the code, like I scrolled the whole page and found the whole pearl code leaked some details regards with admin login, I didn’t have much faith in reporting it, since I assumed it would be just a stack trace error and triage team would close this as Informational and as assumed some game was played between me and the triage team💀.

They marked me this as out-of-scope when I submitted this flaw. since I was already a bit sad since all my reported bugs in NASA got duplicate and N/A, I didn’t care about this much.

but the next day I received this message

“Customer sent a private message to Bugcrowd Staff”

I got bit confused and noted that my reported subdomain was in scope, so I immediately sent a response to the request by stating my URL was in scope.

To my surprise, the next day they re-opened the report and marked the report to ‘Triaged’ and I couldn’t explain the joy I had at that moment.🥹

Once the bug was resolved, within a week, I got an appreciation letter from NASA.❤️

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