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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Motorola SBG6580 6.5.0.0-GA-00-226-NOSH. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /goform/login of the component Web Access. Performing a manipulation as part of HTTP POST Request results in denial of service. In addition, an exploit is available. It is suggested to use restrictive firewalling.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Motorola SBG6580 6.5.0.0-GA-00-226-NOSH. This affects some unknown processing of the file /goform/login of the component Web Access. The manipulation as part of a HTTP POST Request leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability.

The weakness was presented 01/04/2014 by nicx0 as Exploit-DB 30688 as not defined exploit (Exploit-DB). It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. The vendor was not involved in the public release. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details and a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by nicx0 (nicx0) in Python and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The code used by the exploit is:

query_args = {'this_was':'too_easy'}
url = 'http://' + router_ip + '/goform/login'
post_data = urllib.urlencode(query_args)
request = urllib2.Request(url, post_data)

It is possible to mitigate the weakness by firewalling Web Server Port.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (30688), SecurityFocus (BID 65177†) and OSVDB (102605†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Motorola

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• SBG6580

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• 6.5.0.0-GA-00-226-NOSH

License

• commercial

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