Huawei E303 Ch2e303sm/22.157.18.00.858 api/sms/send-sms cross-site request forgery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Huawei E303 Ch2e303sm/22.157.18.00.858. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file api/sms/send-sms. Executing a manipulation can lead to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2014-2946. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Huawei E303 Ch2e303sm/22.157.18.00.858. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the file api/sms/send-sms. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in api/sms/send-sms in the Web UI 11.010.06.01.858 on Huawei E303 modems with software 22.157.18.00.858 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that perform API operations and send SMS messages via a request element in an XML document.

The weakness was published 05/30/2014 by Benjamin Daniel Mussler as VU#325636 as confirmed vulnerability note (CERT.org). The advisory is shared for download at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2014-2946 since 04/21/2014. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details and also a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by Benjamin Daniel Mussler in HTTP POST Request and been published immediately after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at kb.cert.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The code used by the exploit is:

POST /api/sms/send-sms HTTP/1.1
Host: hi.link
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.8,de-de;q=0.5,de;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://hi.link/
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: 225

<?xml version="1.0" 
encoding="UTF-8"?><request><Index>-1</Index><Phones><Phone>4422</Phone></Phones><Sca></Sca><Content>
Sample Text</Content><Length>0</Length><Reserved>1</Reserved><Date>2013-12-03 
16:00:00</Date></request>

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (93495), Exploit-DB (39209), SecurityFocus (BID 67747†) and Secunia (SA58992†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Physical: No
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Benjamin Daniel Mussler
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05/30/2014 +39 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: VU#325636
Researcher: Benjamin Daniel Mussler
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2014-2946 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-2946
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-13420
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X-Force: 93495 - Huawei E303 api/sms/send-sms cross-site request forgery, Medium Risk
SecurityFocus: 67747 - Huawei E303 Router Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability
Secunia: 58992 - Huawei E303 Series SMS Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability, Less Critical

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 06/03/2014 16:38
Updated: 08/21/2024 03:50
Changes: 06/03/2014 16:38 (58), 09/04/2017 09:18 (10), 08/12/2024 22:08 (17), 08/21/2024 03:50 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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