Belkin N750 Router Command Injection

critical Nessus Plugin ID 101355

Synopsis

The remote router is affected by a remote command injection vulnerability.

Description

The remote Belkin router is affected by a remote command injection vulnerability due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input.
An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted URL, to execute arbitrary commands on the device.

Note that Nessus has detected this vulnerability by reading the contents of file /etc/passwd.

Solution

Apply firmware version 1.10.22 or later.

See Also

https://www.belkin.com/us/support-article?articleNum=4831

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 101355

File Name: belkin_twonky_proxy_cmd_injection.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 7/10/2017

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: x-cpe:/o:belkin:n750_f9k1103_firmware

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Belkin WWW

Exploited by Nessus: true

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2016