A vulnerability was found in Samsung TV D7000. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component SSID Authentication. The manipulation with the input value SEC_Linkshare leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity.

The weakness was disclosed 04/08/2014 by John as not defined comment (Blog). The advisory is available at sviehb.wordpress.com. The vendor was not involved in the coordination of the public release. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/01/2019). This vulnerability has a historic impact due to its background and reception. The advisory points out:

(...) the SEC_Linkshare SSID gives full access to the LAN and Internet for anyone connecting!!

A public exploit has been developed by John and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is available at sviehb.wordpress.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The code used by the exploit is:

reaver -i mon3 -b E4:E0:C5:05:D5:68 -vv

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Samsung

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• TV

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• D7000

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• commercial

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• end of life (old version)

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