My Experience on Hacking the Dutch Government
Hello, fellow Bug Hunters! It’s me again Jefferson Gonzales, and in this article, I’ll tell you about how I got my dream Dutch Government SWAG, and without wasting your time let’s get started. On May
Hello, fellow Bug Hunters! It’s me again Jefferson Gonzales, and in this article, I’ll tell you about how I got my dream Dutch Government SWAG, and without wasting your time let’s get started.
On May last year 2021, I noticed that many Bug Hunters had posted on Twitter and LinkedIn that they had received swag from the Dutch Government, I saw the T-Shirt, which was so awesome and had a print saying “I hacked the Dutch government and all I got was this lousy t-shirt,” and I wanted to wear that t-shirt as well, so I searched for a list of Dutch Government domains and found it on github.
I manually checked all of that domain for two weeks and all I got is a Static Website and I didn’t found any bugs, so I need to find a good target that is not a Static Website, after checking manually I found a target which is number 1043 on the list
The first I did is to use waybackurls so I can collect all the hidden parameters, and when my waybackurls done scanning I found an interesting parameter that was reflected on the web page
The value of the parameter ?photographer= was reflected on the page, to test if it’s possible for XSS I add a value Gonz”> to ?photographer= and it was reflected without sanitizing the symbols
Final Payload:
Open Redirect to XSS
While waiting for the fix on the above report I hunt again and I found another latest dutch government website list, you can download it below
After I downloaded and looking for a new target I found a good one
nictiz.nl
Since in the main domain there’s no any juicy endpoint I scan the subdomain using the tool called Sublist3r and I found an interesting one
The thing that caught my attention is there’s a Login but there’s no Signup or Register
I tried a default user/pass
admin:admin
admin:admin123
demo:demo
When I try the demo:demo credential I redirected into the dashboard, but inside the Dashboard of a Demo privilege user there’s no interesting functions since you can’t edit or modify any content it’s like it’s the same as user without authentication
But using the demo credential I found an open redirect vulnerability
https://terminologie.nictiz.nl/art-decor/login?returnToUrl=//google.com
but I need to escalate this bug to a better vulnerability so it will be qualified to their Vulnerability Disclosure Program.
I used the below payload to escalate into XSS
Payload: javascript:alert(1)
So when I click the below link and login using the demo credential the XSS will be executed
CSRF to Account Takeover
My third target was
It has a big scope to hunt since there’s a Login and Register, first I created an account and then login
When I update my name I found out that there’s no CSRF Token implemented so I can modify any users name with CSRF attack, but this is not a critical bug since I can only modify the name
I need to find a way to make it a serious bug, so I looked through all of the features and discovered the change password feature, which allows me to change my password without having to enter the old one.
I immediately generated a CSRF POC using Burp Suite CSRF Generator, tested it on my second account, and it successfully changed the password on my second account.
Report Responses
1st Bug:
Submitted Date: May 3, 2021
Resolved Date: September 16, 2021
2nd Bug:
Submitted Date: August 15, 2021
Resolved Date: September 21, 2021
3rd Bug:
Submitted Date: August 17, 2021
Resolved Date: October 1, 2021
After a month, my swag still hasn’t arrived, so I go to my local post office and pick it up myself.
Thank you for reading this writeup.
You can contact me on
Twitter: @gonzxphLinkedIn: @gonzxph
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