Internet of Things

Experts disclose critical flaws in Advantech router monitoring tool

Cisco Talos experts disclose details of several critical flaws in a router monitoring application developed by industrial and IoT firm Advantech.

Cisco Talos researchers discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in the R-SeeNet application developed by industrial and IoT firm Advantech. The application allows network administrators to monitor Advantech routers in their infrastructure.

The monitoring tool collects information from routers in the network and stores it into a SQL database. The flaws discovered by Talos reside in several scripts inside of R-SeeNet’s web applications. 

An attacker could exploit the flaws execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the targeted user’s browser, execute arbitrary OS commands, and execute PHP commands.

“TALOS-2021-1270 (CVE-2021-21799), TALOS-2021-1271 (CVE-2021-21800) and TALOS-2021-1272 (CVE-2021-21801 – CVE-2021-21803) are all vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the targeted user’s browser. An adversary could exploit any of these vulnerabilities by sending the target a malicious URL and tricking the user into opening it.Another command execution vulnerability, TALOS-2021-1274 (CVE-2021-21805), could allow an adversary to execute OS commands by sending the targeted device a specially crafted HTTP request.” reads the advisory published by Talos researchers.

“There is also a file inclusion vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary PHP commands. TALOS-2021-1273 (CVE-2021-21804) exists in R-SeeNet’s options.php script functionality and could be triggered via a malicious HTTP request.”

The flaws affect R-SeeNet version 2.4.12 and Talos team reported them to Advantech in March.

The experts decided to publicly disclose the vulnerabilities after Advantech failed to address them within the 90-day deadline, they also published proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the issues.

Cisco Talos also released SNORT rules 57290 – 57293, 57305 – 57309, 57338 and 57339, to detect exploitation attempts against the above flaws

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Advantech)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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