Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-38523 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in Samsung products

047910
CVSS 5.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
samsung
CWE-306
NVD
Published: 2023-07-20
Updated: 2023-08-01

Summary

The web interface on multiple Samsung Harman AMX N-Series devices allows directory listing for the /tmp/ directory, without authentication, exposing sensitive information such as the command history and screenshot of the file being processed. This affects N-Series N1115 Wallplate Video Encoder before 1.15.61, N-Series N1x22A Video Encoder/Decoder before 1.15.61, N-Series N1x33A Video Encoder/Decoder before 1.15.61, N-Series N1x33 Video Encoder/Decoder before 1.15.61, N-Series N2x35 Video Encoder/Decoder before 1.15.61, N-Series N2x35A Video Encoder/Decoder before 1.15.61, N-Series N2xx2 Video Encoder/Decoder before 1.15.61, N-Series N2xx2A Video Encoder/Decoder before 1.15.61, N-Series N3000 Video Encoder/Decoder before 2.12.105, and N-Series N4321 Audio Transceiver before 1.00.06.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Samsung
33
Hardware
Samsung
33

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Choosing a Message/Channel Identifier on a Public/Multicast Channel
    Attackers aware that more data is being fed into a multicast or public information distribution means can 'select' information bound only for another client, even if the distribution means itself forces users to authenticate in order to connect initially. Doing so allows the attacker to gain access to possibly privileged information, possibly perpetrate other attacks through the distribution means by impersonation. If the channel/message being manipulated is an input rather than output mechanism for the system, (such as a command bus), this style of attack could change its identifier from a less privileged to more so privileged channel or command.
  • Using Unpublished Web Service APIs
    An attacker searches for and invokes Web Services APIs that the target system designers did not intend to be publicly available. If these APIs fail to authenticate requests the attacker may be able to invoke services and/or gain privileges they are not authorized for.
  • Manipulating Writeable Terminal Devices
    This attack exploits terminal devices that allow themselves to be written to by other users. The attacker sends command strings to the target terminal device hoping that the target user will hit enter and thereby execute the malicious command with their privileges. The attacker can send the results (such as copying /etc/passwd) to a known directory and collect once the attack has succeeded.
  • Cross Site Request Forgery (aka Session Riding)
    An attacker crafts malicious web links and distributes them (via web pages, email, etc.), typically in a targeted manner, hoping to induce users to click on the link and execute the malicious action against some third-party application. If successful, the action embedded in the malicious link will be processed and accepted by the targeted application with the users' privilege level. This type of attack leverages the persistence and implicit trust placed in user session cookies by many web applications today. In such an architecture, once the user authenticates to an application and a session cookie is created on the user's system, all following transactions for that session are authenticated using that cookie including potential actions initiated by an attacker and simply "riding" the existing session cookie.

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