Insteon Hub 1012 PubNub Message buffer overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Insteon Hub 1012 and classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component PubNub Message Handler. This manipulation causes buffer overflow. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2017-14454. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Insteon Hub 1012 (Network Management Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component PubNub Message Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities exists in the PubNub message handler for the "control" channel of Insteon Hub running firmware version 1012. Specially crafted replies received from the PubNub service can cause buffer overflows on a global section overwriting arbitrary data. An attacker should impersonate PubNub and answer an HTTPS GET request to trigger this vulnerability. The `strcpy` at [18] overflows the buffer `insteon_pubnub.channel_al`, which has a size of 16 bytes.

The weakness was disclosed 01/12/2023 as TALOS-2017-0502. The advisory is shared at talosintelligence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-14454 since 09/13/2017. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/04/2023).

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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Class: Buffer overflow
CWE: CWE-120 / CWE-119
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

09/13/2017 🔍
01/12/2023 +1947 days 🔍
01/12/2023 +0 days 🔍
02/04/2023 +23 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: TALOS-2017-0502
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2017-14454 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-14454
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-218137

Entryinfo

Created: 01/12/2023 08:42
Updated: 02/04/2023 18:16
Changes: 01/12/2023 08:42 (50), 02/04/2023 18:16 (10)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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