Server-Side Template Injection Engine Fingerprint
ssti-engine-fingerprint is a high severity check in the
web category, written in python.
Its source is templates/web/injection/ssti-engine-fingerprint.py in
cert-x-gen-templates.
What it checks
Section titled “What it checks”Fingerprints template engines via payload injection and response analysis to detect SSTI vulnerabilities
Header
Section titled “Header”| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Id | ssti-engine-fingerprint |
| Severity | high |
| Language | python |
| Category | web |
| Author | CERT-X-GEN Security Team |
| Template version | 1.0.0 |
| Confidence | 90 |
| CVSS | 8.6 |
| Weakness | CWE-94, CWE-1336 |
| Tags | ssti, template-injection, web, vulnerability-detection, jinja2, twig, freemarker, velocity, smarty, mako |
| Target kind | not recorded |
| Oracle | not recorded |
References
Section titled “References”Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and
nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a
template cites are surfaced.
- https://portswigger.net/research/server-side-template-injection
- https://book.hacktricks.xyz/pentesting-web/ssti-server-side-template-injection
Run it
Section titled “Run it”To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:
cxg template info ssti-engine-fingerprintThe id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See
cxg template for the rest of
the subcommand, Scan a target for running
a scan, and
A match is not a finding for how
to read what comes back.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Template catalog is the whole corpus.
- web is the rest of this category.
- Templates by weakness class groups checks by the defect they look for.
- Contribute a template is the route from a check you needed and could not find to a merged one.