Re: Remote Command Execution on Cisco WAG120N

[Benji <me () b3nji com>]

Command execution through Dynamic DNS setup is quite clearly not expected
functionality.


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Gary Driggs <gdriggs () gmail com> wrote:

> On Nov 26, 2012, at 1:47 AM, "Julius Kivimäki"
> <julius.kivimaki () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Linux not a vulnerability if
> it requires authentication?
>
> It was not made clear that it was a privilege escalation...
> "Authenticate and browse to /setup.cgi? ... All the fields you see are
> vulnerables to command execution as root." So what kind of credentials
> are used for the initial authentication? Unprivileged? Then it should
> be mentioned as such. Otherwise, I can point out a few dozen embedded
> systems with web UIs that allow me to make configuration changes after
> authentication because that's why they're there. Now if you can point
> out a way to bypass authentication or escalate privileges from an
> account that doesn't normally have write access, you've got a
> vulnerability. I was merely asking how this differed from any other
> auth wall.
>
> -Gary
>
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