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Jacob Baines

Principal Research Engineer, Zero Day Research

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Jacob joined Tenable in 2015 as a reverse engineer for the Nessus plugins team where he analyzed remote code execution vulnerabilities and developed plugins. He was very involved in the team’s malware scanning and YARA implementations. Since joining Tenable, Jacob has 64 CVEs and 51 research advisories credited to his name. He is the founding member of the Zero Day Research team.

In his free time, Jacob enjoys running (slowly), reading, good beer, occasionally contributing to open source projects, and maintaining a regrettably large garden.

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Grandstream ATA HT800 Series Multiple Vulnerabilities

While investigating a Grandstream ATA HT814, Tenable discovered multiple vulnerabilities. CVE-2020-5760: Provisioning Command Injection Tenable found the HT800 series is vulnerable to command injection via the configuration file when P240 is set to 1 and P2 (password) contains shell metacharacters. For example:

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Grandstream UCM6200 Series Multiple Authenticated RCE

While examining a Grandstream UCM6202 IP PBX, Tenable discovered multiple authenticated remote OS command injection vulnerabilities.

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Grandstream GWN7000 Authenticated Command Execution

Tenable found that the Grandstream Enterprise Multi-WAN Gigabit VPN Router (GWN7000) version 1.0.9.4 and before is vulnerable to authenticated OS command execution. The GWN7000 web interface is built on top of OpenWrt's LuCI2 framework.

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Cisco IP Phones Web Server Multiple Vulnerabilities

While conducting research on a Cisco Wireless IP Phone 8821, Tenable discovered a couple of vulnerabilities affecting numerous Cisco IP Phone models.

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MikroTik WinBox Cleartext Password Storage

MikroTik's WinBox stores the user's cleartext password in a configuration file when the Keep Password option is selected. Keep Password is enabled by default.

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Grandstream GXP1600 Series Multiple Issues

While investigating the Grandstream GXP1625, Tenable found a couple of vulnerabilities that allow an authenticated remote attacker to gain root access.

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Amcrest Camera/NVR Multiple Vulnerabilities

Tenable has discovered a couple of vulnerabilities in the port 37777 interface found on a variety of Amcrest/Dahua IP camera and NVR devices. Initially, we verified these vulnerabilities to be present on the Amcrest IP2M-841 and Amcrest 1080-Lite 8CH, and Amcrest verified the issue on a number of their other products.

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Grandstream UCM62xx Multiple SQL Injections

While investigating the Grandstream UCM6202 IP PBX, Tenable discovered a few SQL injections that an unauthenticated remote attacker could use to obtain user passwords.

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Grandstream UCM62xx SQL Injection

While investigating the Grandstream UCM6202 IP PBX, Tenable discovered a previously patched but undisclosed vulnerability. The vulnerability, an SQL injection, can be used to achieve remote code execution in versions below 1.0.19.20. Furthermore, the SQL injection can be used to inject arbitrary HTML into password recovery emails in versions below 1.0.20.17.

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Kodi Multiple Issues

While investigating Kodi, Tenable found two issues. After discussions with Kodi, we hesitate to call these vulnerabilities, but the issues are severe and unexpected enough that we felt an advisory should be issued.

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