2Wire Broadband Router Session Hijacking Vulnerability

By YGN Ethical Hacker Group -
1. OVERVIEW

The 2Wire Broadband Router is vulnerable to Session Hijacking flaw which attackers can compromise the router administrator session.


2. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

2Wire routers, product of 2Wire, are widely-used Broadband routers in SOHO environment.
They are distributed through most famous ISPs (see - http://2wire.com/?p=383) with ready-to-use pre-configured settings.
Their Wireless SSIDs are well-known as "2WIRE" prefix.


3. VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION

The web-based management interface of 2Wire Broadband router does not generate truely unique random session IDs for a logged-in administrator user.
This allows attackers to brute-force guess a valid session ID to compromise the administrator session.
For more information about this kind of weekness,
refer to CWE-330: Use of Insufficiently Random Values and CWE-331: Insufficient Entropy.


4. VERSIONS AFFECTED

Tested against:
Model: 2700HGV-2 Gateway
Hardware Version: 2700-100657-005
Software Version: 5.29.117.3

Other versions might be affected as well.


5. PROOF-OF-CONCEPT/EXPLOIT

http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/2wire/session_analysis/session_tokens_captured_webscarab
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/2wire/session_analysis/session_tokens_captured_burp
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/2wire/session_analysis/session_analysis_with_burp.jpg
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/2wire/session_analysis/session_analysis_with_burp-02.jpg
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/2wire/session_analysis/session_analysis_with_burp-03.jpg
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/2wire/session_analysis/session_analysis_with_burp-04.jpg


6. IMPACT

Attackers can compromise 2wire administrator session through automated tools and modify any settings they want.


7. SOLUTION [from 2wire]

2wire has already investigated and provided a fix for this issue.
These fixes have been implemented in the 6.x series of software and are available to our partners.
Since 2wire does not provide software releases to end-users, it is up to the partner ISP to
adopt new versions and provide them to their customers.


8. VENDOR

2Wire Inc
http://www.2wire.com
About 2Wire - http://www.2wire.com/index.php?p=486


9. CREDIT

This vulnerability was discovered by Aung Khant, http://yehg.net, YGN Ethical Hacker Group, Myanmar.


10. DISCLOSURE TIME-LINE

07-25-2010: vulnerability discovered
07-29-2010: notified vendor
08-02-2010: vendor responded/verified
08-09-2010: vendor did not respond when fix/upgrade would be available
08-09-2010: vulnerability disclosed
08-21-2010: vendor released fix


11. REFERENCES

Original Advisory URL: http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/2wire/[2wire]_session_hijacking_vulnerability
Other unfixed 2Wire Vulnerabilities: http://www.hakim.ws/
Related WebGoat Lesson: http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/training/view/owasp/webgoat/WebGoat_SessionMan_SessionHijackingWithJHijack/
Related: http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2008/04/intranet-hack-targeting-at-2wire-dsl.html
Related: http://www.routerzone.eu/wiki/index.php/Hacking_the_2Wire_1800


#yehg [08-09-2010]

updated: 08-21-2010

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