http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/persistent-xss-and-csrf-on-wireless-g-adsl-gateway-with-speedbooster-wag54gs
The following vulns were found on 24 June 2007 and were tested against
firmware V1.00.06. The specific persistent XSS holes mentioned in this
advisory were fixed by Cisco on firmware version V1.01.03. However,
there are still several other persistent XSS plus the system-wide CSRF
in the latest firmware. CVE-2007-3574 has been assigned to these
issues. Thanks a lot to Cisco for being so great when dealing with my
emails! Credits also go to pdp for providing feedback, ideas and
allowing me to play with his spare WAG54GS router.
By the way, part of this advisory got leaked some time ago on FD, but
I am publishing it as a formal release with additional information
including a password leak which can be combined with any of the
persistent XSS holes found (keep reading for more info on this).
DESCRIPTION
There are several persistent XSS vulnerabilities on the '/setup.cgi'
script. It is possible to inject JavaScript by assigning a payload
like the following to any of the vulnerable parameters:
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The vulnerable (non-sanitized) parameters are the following: devname,
snmp_getcomm, snmp_setcomm, c4_trap_ip_. Additionally, all HTTP
requests are not tokenized with random values. Thus, all requests to
the router's HTTP interface are vulnerable to Cross-site Request
Forgeries (CSRF), perhaps by design. The following is an example of a
HTTP request (notice the lack of non-predictable tokens):
POST /setup.cgi HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=
mtenRestore=Restore+Factory+Defaults&todo=defaultsettings&this_file=Factorydefaults.htm&next_file=index.htm&message=
Although the original request is a POST, we can convert it to a GET,
so that all posted parameters can be submitted on a single URL. For
example, the previous POST request can be converted to a URL such as
the following:
http://admin:admin@192.168.1.1/setup.cgi?mtenRestore=Restore+Factory+Defaults&todo=defaultsettings&this_file=Factorydefaults.htm&next_file=index.htm&message=
By forging administrative requests (Administration button on the
router's HTML menu), an attacker can compromise the router provided
the victim user visits a malicious URL or HTML page (which makes a
request to such malicious URL). The attack can only be successful if
the administrator hasn't changed the default credentials (admin/admin)
or the administrator's browser has an active authentication session
with the router's interface when the attack happens (highly unlikely)
PERSISTENT XSS POC:
The following URL creates a DoS condition by making the
"Administration" page inaccessible since 'history.back()' will run
every time the Administration page is visited. Thus the administrator
won't be able to ever change the default credentials unless a hard
reset is performed by using the router's physical "restart" switch:
http://admin:admin@192.168.1.1/setup.cgi?user_list=1&sysname=admin&sysPasswd=admin&sysConfirmPasswd=admin&remote_management=enable&http_wanport=8080&devname=&snmp_enable=disable&upnp_enable=enable&wlan_enable=enable&save=Save+Settings&h_user_list=1&h_pwset=yes&pwchanged=yes&h_remote_management=enable&c4_trap_ip_=">history.back()&h_snmp_enable=enable&h_upnp_enable=enable&h_wlan_enable=enable&todo=save&this_file=Administration.htm&next_file=Administration.htm&message=
Note that he administration page
(/setup.cgi?next_file=Administration.htm) returns the admin password
within the client-side HTML source code as a hidden field. i.e.:
Therefore, we could also inject a payload in our persistent XSS attack
which accesses the admin password through the DOM object:
document.administration.old_pwd.value
…and submits it to the attacker's site every time the page is
accessed. That way, even if the victim admin changed the password, the
attacker would receive the value of the new password! Here is an
example payload:
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