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Dangling DNS: Announcekit

Another service vulnerable to subdomain takeover

This post is the write-up about subdomain takeover vulnerable service Announcekit that I found. Although this is a paid service, It's possible to create PoC without having to purchase the service during trial period.
Announcekit.app
​AnnounceKit is a user communication platform that helps you announce product updates to increase feature adoption.
Service Detection
CNAME record should be pointing to cname.announcekit.app
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akit-tk.melbadry9.xyz.  42      IN      CNAME   cname.announcekit.app.
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I use the following Nuclei template to check for possible candidates.
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id: detect-announcekit
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​
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info:
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  name: Announcekit service detection
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  author: melbadry9
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  severity: info
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  tags: dns
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​
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dns:
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  - name: "{{FQDN}}"
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    type: CNAME
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    class: inet
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    recursion: true
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    retries: 2
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    matchers:
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      - type: word
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        words:
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          - "cname.announcekit.app"
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Takeover Detection
To verify whether subdomain takeover may be possible we should see a similar error page.
Vulnerable Subdomain Error Page
Fingerprint
To detect vulnerable subdomain we use the following fingerprint based on HTTP response we confirm whether subdomain is vulnerable or not.
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{
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    "status_code": 404,
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    "text": [
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        "Error 404 - AnnounceKit"
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    ]
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}
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I use the following Nuclei template to check for vulnerable subdomain.
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id: announcekit-takeover
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info:
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  name: Announcekit Takeover Detection
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  author: melbadry9
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  severity: high
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  tags: takeover
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  reference: https://announcekit.app/docs/custom-host
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requests:
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  - method: GET
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    raw:
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      - |
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        GET / HTTP/2
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        Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
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    redirects: true
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    max-redirects: 1
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    matchers-condition: and
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    matchers:
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      - type: word
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        words:
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          - 'Error 404 - AnnounceKit'
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      - type: status
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        status:
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          - 404
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Takeover Steps
Register an account on AnnounceKit​
Go to https://announcekit.app/dashboard/settings/feeds
Set Custom Hostname to subdomain we want to takeover akit-tk.melbadry9.xyz
Takeover Steps
Visit https://kit-tk.melbadry9.xyz
PoC
Can I takeover XYZ? - Issue
I have opened an issue on GitHub regarding this service:
Announcekit vulnerable to subdomain takeover · Issue #228 · EdOverflow/can-i-take-over-xyz
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