Re:Cable Haunt: A critical vulnerability found in cable modems
by big_chungus on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:30AM
(#22033843)
This is almost certainly exploitable remotely with a DNS rebinding attack.
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Re:Cable Haunt: A critical vulnerability found in cable modems
by thu2111 on Monday January 13, 2020 @08:22AM
(#22034198)
You don't need any fancy rebinding attacks. That's a bit 2001 era web hacking :)
This issue is based on WebSockets where the software on the modem:
a) Doesn't verify any of the origin headers sent, so any origin works (rebinding is designed to beat origin checks)
b) Copies an uploaded message straight onto the stack without doing any size checks
Re:Cable Haunt: A critical vulnerability found in cable modems
by onesmallcoin on Monday January 13, 2020 @01:04PM
(#22036896)
@thu2111 He's giving you an attack chain.
If you rebind the dns server of the modem with a snmp/tr069 exploit you could redirect/inject into the http traffic a page that contained the javascript payload to exploit the Cable Haunt vulnerabiliy against the Spectrum Analyser endpoint. Because websockets doesn't use CORS to restrict the requesting hosts domain to the modem, you could execute code on the gateway modem from the internet with the combination of a client on the remote network running a http request from a browser combined with an alternative dns rebinding attack against the gateway and a server hosting the malicious websockets payload on a http server.
Edit: or you could get them to click on a link