Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-8361 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN
dlink
realtek
CWE-20
nessus
exploit available
metasploit

Summary

The miniigd SOAP service in Realtek SDK allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted NewInternalClient request, as exploited in the wild through 2023.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Exploit-Db

descriptionRealtek SDK Miniigd UPnP SOAP Command Execution. CVE-2014-8361. Remote exploit for linux platform
fileexploits/linux/remote/37169.rb
idEDB-ID:37169
last seen2016-02-04
modified2015-06-01
platformlinux
port52869
published2015-06-01
reportermetasploit
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/37169/
titleRealtek SDK Miniigd UPnP SOAP Command Execution
typeremote

Metasploit

Nessus

NASL familyMisc.
NASL idREALTEK_CVE_2014_8361.NASL
descriptionAccording to its banner, the Realtek Software Development Kit is running on the remote device. It is, therefore, affected by a flaw in the miniigd SOAP service due to a failure to properly sanitize user input when handling NewInternalClient requests. An unauthenticated, remote attacker, using a crafted request, can exploit this to execute arbitrary code with root level privileges.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id83185
published2015-05-01
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/83185
titleRealtek SDK miniigd SOAP Service RCE
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(83185);
  script_version("1.13");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/22");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-8361");
  script_bugtraq_id(74330);
  script_xref(name:"ZDI", value:"ZDI-15-155");
  script_xref(name:"EDB-ID", value:"37169");

  script_name(english:"Realtek SDK miniigd SOAP Service RCE");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the banners.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"A software development kit running on the remote device is affected by
a remote code execution vulnerability.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to its banner, the Realtek Software Development Kit is
running on the remote device. It is, therefore, affected by a flaw in
the miniigd SOAP service due to a failure to properly sanitize user
input when handling NewInternalClient requests. An unauthenticated,
remote attacker, using a crafted request, can exploit this to execute
arbitrary code with root level privileges.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-15-155/");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"There is currently no fix available. As a workaround, restrict access
to vulnerable devices.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Realtek SDK Miniigd UPnP SOAP Command Execution');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/04/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/05/01");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"potential_vulnerability", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:realtek:realtek_sdk");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Misc.");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("upnp_search.nasl", "http_version.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Settings/ParanoidReport");
  script_require_ports("upnp/server", "Services/www");

  exit(0);
}

include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("http.inc");
include("audit.inc");

if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID);

global_var fix, vuln;
vuln = FALSE;

##
# Checks if the given server banner is from a vulnerable
# version of realtek upnpd.  If so, a reporting function is
# called
#
# @param port port number of the service being tested
# @param server server banner advertised on "port"
# @param proto the protocol the port is accessible by (tcp or udp)
##
function _check_realtek_version(port, server, proto)
{
  local_var ver, report, banner;
  server = chomp(server);
  ver = eregmatch(string:server, pattern:"realtek/v((0(\.[0-9.]+)?|1\.[0-3](\.[0-9.]+)?|1)$)", icase:TRUE);

  if (!isnull(ver))
  {
    vuln = TRUE;

    banner = ereg_replace(string:server, pattern:'SERVER: *(.+)', replace:"\1", icase:TRUE);
    report =
      '\n  Server banner     : ' + banner +
      '\n  Installed version : ' + ver[1] + '\n';

    security_report_v4(port:port,
                       proto:proto,
                       severity:SECURITY_HOLE,
                       extra:report);
  }
}

# check the server string retrieved via UDP 1900 by upnp_search.nasl
servers = get_kb_list('upnp/server');
foreach(server in servers) _check_realtek_version(port:1900, server:server, proto:'udp');

# check any server strings retrieved via HTTP
www_ports = get_kb_list('Services/www');

if(!vuln && isnull(www_ports))
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');

foreach port (www_ports)
{
  server = http_server_header(port:port);
  if (empty_or_null(server)) continue;

  _check_realtek_version(port:port, server:server, proto:'tcp');
}

if (!vuln)
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/132090/realtek_miniigd_upnp_exec_noauth.rb.txt
idPACKETSTORM:132090
last seen2016-12-05
published2015-05-29
reporterMichael Messner
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132090/Realtek-SDK-Miniigd-UPnP-SOAP-Command-Execution.html
titleRealtek SDK Miniigd UPnP SOAP Command Execution