CVE-2018-12257

Summary

CVECVE-2018-12257
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-12 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-08-02 14:24:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered on Momentum Axel 720P 5.1.8 devices. There is Authenticated Custom Firmware Upgrade via DNS Hijacking. An authenticated root user with CLI access is able to remotely upgrade firmware to a custom image due to lack of SSL validation by changing the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf to the attacker's server, and serving the expected HTTPS response containing new firmware for the device to download.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-295

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Apollotechnologiesinc Momentum Axel 720p - All All All
Hardware Apollotechnologiesinc Momentum Axel 720p - All All All
Operating System Apollotechnologiesinc Momentum Axel 720p Firmware 5.1.8 All All All
Operating System Apollotechnologiesinc Momentum Axel 720p Firmware 5.1.8 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
rchase.com/downloads/momentum-iot-penetration-test-report.pdf MISC rchase.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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