8086 - Pentesting InfluxDB

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Basic Information

InfluxDB is an open-source time series database (TSDB) developed by InfluxData. TSDBs are optimized for storing and serving time series data, which consists of timestamp-value pairs. Compared to general-purpose databases, TSDBs provide significant improvements in storage space and performance for time series datasets. They employ specialized compression algorithms and can be configured to automatically remove old data. Specialized database indices also enhance query performance.

Default port: 8086

PORT     STATE SERVICE VERSION
8086/tcp open  http    InfluxDB http admin 1.7.5

Enumeration

From a pentester point of view this another database that could be storing sensitive information, so it's interesting to know how to dump all the info.

Authentication

InfluxDB might require authentication or not

# Try unauthenticated
influx -host 'host name' -port 'port #'
> use _internal

If you get an error like this one: ERR: unable to parse authentication credentials it means that it's expecting some credentials.

influx –username influx –password influx_pass

There was a vulnerability influxdb that allowed to bypass the authentication: CVE-2019-20933

Manual Enumeration

The information of this example was taken from here.

Show databases

The found databases are telegraf and internal (you will find this one everywhere)

> show databases
name: databases
name
----
telegraf
_internal

Show tables/measurements

The InfluxDB documentation explains that measurements in InfluxDB can be paralleled with SQL tables. The nomenclature of these measurements is indicative of their respective content, each housing data relevant to a particular entity.

> show measurements
name: measurements
name
----
cpu
disk
diskio
kernel
mem
processes
swap
system

Show columns/field keys

The field keys are like the columns of the database

> show field keys
name: cpu
fieldKey         fieldType
--------         ---------
usage_guest      float
usage_guest_nice float
usage_idle       float
usage_iowait     float

name: disk
fieldKey     fieldType
--------     ---------
free         integer
inodes_free  integer
inodes_total integer
inodes_used  integer

[ ... more keys ...]

Dump Table

And finally you can dump the table doing something like

select * from cpu
name: cpu
time                cpu       host   usage_guest usage_guest_nice usage_idle        usage_iowait        usage_irq usage_nice usage_softirq        usage_steal usage_system        usage_user
----                ---       ----   ----------- ---------------- ----------        ------------        --------- ---------- -------------        ----------- ------------        ----------
1497018760000000000 cpu-total ubuntu 0           0                99.297893681046   0                   0         0          0                    0           0.35105315947842414 0.35105315947842414
1497018760000000000 cpu1      ubuntu 0           0                99.69909729188728 0                   0         0          0                    0           0.20060180541622202 0.10030090270811101

In some testing with the authentication bypass it was noted that the name of the table needed to be between double quotes like: select * from "cpu"

Automated Authentication

msf6 > use auxiliary/scanner/http/influxdb_enum

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