Research for SharePoint (MOSS)

This page contains research notes on Microsoft's SharePoint MOSS and WSS

Resources

Microsoft resources

• Security Architecture for SharePoint Products and Technologies (Word Doc)
• SharePoint Community Portal
• Downloadable book: Security for Office SharePoint Server 2007 - link to 277 page Doc file
• SharePoint End User Security

Other Resources and Documentation

• SharePoint Security Concepts - contains a number of other links to more material
• SharePoint Security Best Practices - $995 Gartner report
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Security Model
• SharePoint Security Concerns Simply a Lack of Governance?
• Governance Key for SharePoint Implementations
• SearchSecurity – Securing SharePoint: SharePoint security best practices - Information Security Magazine July/Aug2012 - Volume 14 - Locking Down Sharepoint - Businesses love Microsoft’s collaboration software but can forget to secure it.

Presentations

• Bishop Fox - HackCon 2011 - Oslo, Norway - February 16, 2011 : SharePoint Security: Advanced SharePoint Security Tips and Tools
• OWASP Houston Chapter - August 12, 2009 : SharePoint Auditing and Penetration Testing Presentation by: Shohn Trojacek
• from Denim group:
  • Securing SharePoint (PDF Format) - TASSCC Technology Education Conference in Austin, March 26, 2009
  • Securing Sharepoint (PDF Format) - Texas Regional Infrastructure Security Conference (TRISC) in Austin, March 24, 2009
  • A Primer to SharePoint Security - video

Other interesting resources

• MOSS Security jobs (in Australia)
• Articles on CMSWire about SharePoint

Other Blogs and Articles

• Microsoft SharePoint: A Weak Link In Enterprise Security? - Dark Reading

Security related technical articles

• How to Programmatically Disable Code Access Security

Published Security issues

SharePoint related vulnerabilities and its status

• {Note: Add MSRC case}
• http://milw0rm.com/exploits/8704 & http://milw0rm.com/sploits/2009-IIS-Advisory.pdf

MOSS Security related WebParts, Tools & services

Open Source

• From CodePlex (see more on this search for SharePoint Security
  • SharePoint Security Templates (CodePlex)
  • SharePoint Security Configuration Feature
  • Sharepoint Access Checker Web Part
  • Site Security Management Utility
  • CryptoCollaboration For SharePoint

Commercially Supported

• ARB Security Solutions (www.sharepointsecurity.com)
• AbsoluteProof for MS SharePoint - related article Surety Releases AbsoluteProof for SharePoint
• Sharepoint case study (marketing doc)

Dangerous MOSS APIs

Map the security implications of MOSS APIs, for example:

• which APIs (if badly used)are vulnerable to: XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection
• configuration settings that have security implications

SharePoint Hacking

SharePoint Hacking Tools

• SharePoint Enumerator | Professionally Evil - This is a collection of 4 modules that help enumerate the SharePoint server the victim is connected to.
• Sparty - MS Sharepoint and Frontpage Auditing Tool
• SPScan - SharePoint scanner and fingerprinter based on WPScan
• McAfee Network Discovery for Microsoft SharePoint
• Bishop Fox - SharePoint Hacking Diggity Project - SharePoint hacking tools project page. Currently includes such hacking tools as:
  • SharePoint – Google and Bing Diggity Dictionary Files - New GoogleDiggity input dictionary file containing 121 queries that allow users to uncover SharePoint specific vulnerabilities exposed via the Google search engine. This dictionary helps assessors locate exposures of common SharePoint administrative pages, web services, and site galleries that an organization typically would not want to be made available to the public, let alone indexed by Google. Recently, we’ve also created a Bing hacking dictionary (124 Bing queries) that can be imported into BingDiggity and used to identify SharePoint exposures as well.
  • SharePoint Hacking Alerts for Google and Bing - SharePoint Hacking Alerts provide real-time vulnerability updates from both the Google and Bing search engines. These convenient RSS feeds help locate exposures of common SharePoint administrative pages, web services, and site galleries that an organization typically would not want to be made available to the public, let alone indexed by Google and Bing. Google Alerts have been created for all SharePoint related search strings, which generate a new alert each time newly indexed pages by Google match one of those regular expressions. Microsoft Bing’s &format=rss directive was used to turn Bing searches into RSS feeds.
  • SharePointURLBrute - SharePointURLBrute is a new SharePoint hacking utility developed to help assessors quickly test user access to 101 common SharePoint administrative pages (e.g. “Add Users” page -> /_layouts/aclinv.aspx) by automating forceful browsing attacks.
  • SharePoint UserDispEnum - UserDispEnum is a new SharePoint user enumeration tool that exploits insecure access controls to the /_layouts/UserDisp.aspx?ID=1 page. This utility cycles through the integer ID values from 1 onward to identify valid users, account names, and other related profile information that can be easily extracted from the SharePoint user profiles. For real, live examples of SharePoint site deployments insecurely exposing this functionality to anonymous users on the Internet, see Google results of: “http://www.google.com/#q=inurl:”/_layouts/userdisp.aspx”. Users can leverage Bishop Fox’s GoogleDiggity hacking tools to identify these exposures within their own organization, and then employ the UserDispEnum tool to exploit them during penetration tests.
  • SharePoint DLP Tools - COMING SOON – Bishop Fox's data loss prevention (DLP) tools for Microsoft SharePoint. SharePoint DLP Tools utilize administrative web services to help automate the searching of SharePoint files and lists for SSNs, credit card numbers, passwords, and other common information disclosures.

SharePoint Hacking Presentations

• 2008
  • hak5 - Episode 407 - Toorcon 2008: Robin Wood, Dan Griffin - see 11:10 minute mark in video for interview with Dan Griffin about SharePoint Hacking.
• 2012
  • Bishop Fox - SharePoint Hacking Diggity Project - Presentations:
    • OWASP L.A. 2012 - Los Angeles, CA - February 22, 2012 : SharePoint Hacking: Advanced SharePoint Security Tips and Tools
• 2013
  • TMI: Assessing and Exploiting SharePoint at DerbyCon 3.0
  • Sparty - Blackhat USA 2013 Sparty : A Frontpage and Sharepoint Auditing Tool

WebParts Security

• Security ratings & mappings of MOSS Deployed Web Parts
• Security ratings & mappings of 3rd Part Web Parts