ABB Cylon Aspect 3.08.03 (productRemovalUpdate.php) Remote Code Execution

Title: ABB Cylon Aspect 3.08.03 (productRemovalUpdate.php) Remote Code Execution
Advisory ID: ZSL-2025-5945
Type: Local/Remote
Impact: System Access, DoS
Risk: (5/5)
Release Date: 22.05.2025

Summary

ASPECT is an award-winning scalable building energy management and control solution designed to allow users seamless access to their building data through standard building protocols including smart devices.

Description

The ABB BMS/BAS controller suffers from an authenticated blind OS command injection vulnerability. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands through the ‘instance’ HTTP POST parameter called by the productRemovalUpdate.php script. The token (key POST param) needs to be set to 159 to trigger the command execution.

Vendor

ABB Ltd. - https://www.global.abb

Affected Version

NEXUS Series, MATRIX-2 Series, ASPECT-Enterprise, ASPECT-Studio
Firmware: <=3.08.03

Tested On

GNU/Linux 3.15.10 (armv7l)
GNU/Linux 3.10.0 (x86_64)
GNU/Linux 2.6.32 (x86_64)
Intel® Atom™ Processor E3930 @ 1.30GHz
Intel® Xeon® Silver 4208 CPU @ 2.10GHz
PHP/7.3.11
PHP/5.6.30
PHP/5.4.16
PHP/4.4.8
PHP/5.3.3
AspectFT Automation Application Server
lighttpd/1.4.32
lighttpd/1.4.18
Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (rhel-2.6.22.1.-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.261-b02, mixed mode)
ErgoTech MIX Deployment Server 2.0.0

Vendor Status

[21.04.2024] Vulnerability discovered.
[22.04.2024] Vendor contacted.
[22.04.2024] Vendor responds.
[02.05.2024] Working with the vendor.
[21.05.2025] No response from the vendor.
[22.05.2025] Public security advisory released.

PoC

abb_aspect_rce25.txt

Credits

Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic - <[email protected]>

References

[1] https://packetstorm.news/files/id/194974/

Changelog

[22.05.2025] - Initial release
[26.05.2025] - Added reference [1]

Contact

Zero Science Lab

Web: https://www.zeroscience.mk
e-mail: [email protected]