A null byte interaction error has been discovered in the code that the telnetd_startup daemon uses to construct a pair of ephemeral passwords that allow a user to spawn a telnet service on the router, and to ensure that the telnet service persists upon reboot. By means of a crafted exchange of UDP packets, an unauthenticated attacker on the local network can leverage this null byte interaction error in such a way as to make those ephemeral passwords predictable (with 1-in-94 odds). Since the attacker must manipulate data processed by the OpenSSL function RSA_public_decrypt(), successful exploitation of this vulnerability depends on the use of an unpadded RSA cipher (CVE-2022-25218).
[
{
"product": "Phicomm Routers",
"vendor": "n/a",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "K3 >= 21.5.37.246, K3C >= 32.1.22.113, K2P >= 20.4.1.7, K2 A7 >= 22.6.506.28, K2G A1 >= 22.6.3.20"
}
]
}
]