Synology Photo Station up to 6.5.3 HTTP Header login.php X-Forwarded-For command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Synology Photo Station up to 6.5.3 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the file login.php of the component HTTP Header Handler. This manipulation of the argument X-Forwarded-For as part of Shell Metacharacter causes command injection. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2016-10329. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Synology Photo Station up to 6.5.3 (Network Attached Storage Software). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the file login.php of the component HTTP Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument X-Forwarded-For as part of a Shell Metacharacter leads to a command injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Command injection vulnerability in login.php in Synology Photo Station before 6.5.3-3226 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the crafted 'X-Forwarded-For' header.

The bug was discovered 09/23/2015. The weakness was published 05/12/2017 as not defined mailinglist post (oss-sec). The advisory is shared at seclists.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2016-10329 since 04/18/2017. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 597 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:login.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 6.5.3-3226 eliminates this vulnerability.

Similar entries are available at VDB-99543, VDB-99542, VDB-101126 and VDB-101127. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Network Attached Storage Software

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• Synology

Name

• Photo Station

Version

• 6.5.0
• 6.5.1
• 6.5.2
• 6.5.3

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.synology.com/

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