BASHLITE Malware leverages ShellShock Bug to Hijack Devices Running BusyBox

Cyber criminals are using new malware variants by exploiting GNU Bash vulnerability referred to as ShellShock CVE-2014-6271 in order to infect embedded devices running BusyBox software, according to a researcher. A new variant of "Bashlite" malware targeting devices running BusyBox software was...

NAT-PMP Security Vulnerability Affects 1.2M Routers

Vulnerabilities in embedded devices, in particular small office and home office routers, have been relentless. Another serious issue was discovered this week that affects more than 1.2 million such devices due to improper NAT-PMP protocol implementations, most of which run counter to the...

WPS Implementation Issue Exposes Wi-Fi Routers to Attack

A number of popular home and small office routers suffer from an implementation problem that could lead an experienced hacker down the road toward learning the devices’ eight-digit Wi-Fi Protected Setup WPS PINs in one guess. The attack, developed by Dominique Bongard, founder of 0xcite of...

Embedthis Goahead Webserver 3.1.3-0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. Title: Embedthis Goahead Webserver multiple DoS vulnerabilities. Author: 0in Maksymilian Motyl Date: 18.02.2014 Version: 3.1.3-0 Software Link: http://embedthis.com/products/goahead/ Download: https://github.com/embedthis/goahead Tested on: Linux x32 Description...

ZeroShell <= 1.0beta11 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

No description provided by source. ==================================================== ZeroShell = 1.0beta11 Remote Code Execution Original Advisory: http://www.ikkisoft.com/stuff/LC-2009-01.txt luca.carettoniatikkisoftdotcom ==================================================== ZeroShell...

GoAheaad Webserver Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: GoAheaad Webserver Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability Date: 5-28-10 Author: Sil3ntDre4m Software Link: http://data.goahead.com/Software/Webserver/2.1.8/webs218.zip Version: 2.18 and earlier Tested on: Windows Affects: Windows platform only Code ...

SNMP Public Community String Zero Day in Routers Disclosed

Researchers have discovered previously unreported problems in SNMP on embedded devices where devices such as secondary market home routers and a popular enterprise-grade load balancer are leaking authentication details in plain text. The data could be extracted by gaining access to the read-only...

Ninja PingU - High performance network scanner tool for large scale analyses

NINJA-PingU Is Not Just a Ping Utility is a free open-source high performance network scanner tool for large scale analyses. It has been designed with performance as its primary goal and developed as a framework to allow easy plugin creation. NINJA PingU comes out of the box with a set of plugins...

Embedthis Goahead WebServer 3.1.3-0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Embedthis Goahead WebServer 3.1.3-0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities Title: Embedthis Goahead Webserver multiple DoS vulnerabilities. Author: 0in Maksymilian Motyl Date: 18.02.2014 Version: 3.1.3-0 Software Link: http://embedthis.com/products/goahead/ Download: https://github.com/embedthis/goahead Test...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: monitorix-3.3.1-1.fc20

Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool design ed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. It has been created to be used under production Linux/UNIX servers, but due to its simplicity and small size may also be used on embedded devices as well...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: monitorix-3.3.1-1.fc18

Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool design ed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. It has been created to be used under production Linux/UNIX servers, but due to its simplicity and small size may also be used on embedded devices as well...

Unauthorized Access Backdoor found in D-Link router Firmware Code

A number of D-Link routers reportedly have an issue that makes them susceptible to unauthorized backdoor access. The researcher Craig, specialized on the embedded device hacking - demonstrated the presence of a backdoor within some DLink routers that allows an attacker to access the administratio...

Monkey HTTPd 1.1.1 - Crash (PoC)

Title: ====== Monkey HTTPD 1.1.1 - Denial of Service Vulnerability Date: ===== 2013-05-28 References: =========== http://bugs.monkey-project.com/ticket/181 Introduction: ============= Monkey is a lightweight and powerful web server for GNU/Linux. It has been designed to be very scalable with low...

Compromising Embedded Linux Routers with Metasploit

Normally we don't get a lot of contributions regarding embedded devices. Even when they are an interesting target from the pentesting point of view, and is usual to find them out of DMZ zones on corporate networks. Maybe it's because access to these devices or the software running in top of them ...

Security researchers will disclose vulnerabilities in Embedded, ARM, x86 & NFC

Security researchers are expected to disclose new vulnerabilities in near field communication NFC, mobile baseband firmware, HTML5 and Web application firewalls next week at the Black Hat USA 2012 security conference. The Black Hat session aim to expose sometimes shocking vulnerabilities in widel...

Weak RSA Keys Plague Embedded Devices, But Experts Caution Against Panic

If all of the noise about weak RSA keys and compromised cryptosystems in the last few days has done anything, it’s to confirm what many in the cryptography community have known for quite a long time: When it comes to implementing cryptosystems, there are a whole lot of people doing it wrong...

Was The Three Character Password Used To Hack South Houston's Water Treatment Plant A Siemens Default?

Siemens said on Tuesday that it is working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to investigate a cyber intrusion into a water treatment plant in South Houston, Texas, but couldn’t confirm that a default, three digit password hard coded into an application used to control the company’s...

SSL Certificate Chain Contains Unnecessary Certificates

At least one of the X.509 certificates sent by the remote host is not required to form a path from the server's own certificate to the CA. This may indicate that the certificate bundle installed with the server's certificate is for certificates lower in the certificate hierarchy. Some SSL...

Group Publishes Database of Embedded Private SSL Keys

A new project has produced a large and growing list of the private SSL keys that are hard-coded into many embedded devices, such as consumer home routers. The LittleBlackBox Project comprises a list of more than 2,000 private keys right now, each of which can be associated with the public key of ...

GoAhead Webserver 2.18 Source Code Disclosure

Exploit Title: GoAheaad Webserver Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability Date: 5-28-10 Author: Sil3ntDre4m Software Link: http://data.goahead.com/Software/Webserver/2.1.8/webs218.zip Version: 2.18 and earlier Tested on: Windows Affects: Windows platform only Code :...