NetOp Remote Control 11.52 / 12.11 Credential Issue Vulnerability

Product: Netop Remote Control
Vendor: Netop
Affected Version(s): 11.52, 12.11
Tested Version(s): 11.52, 12.11
Vulnerability Type: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key (CWE-321)
                    Insufficiently Protected Credentials (CWE-522)
Risk Level: Medium
Solution Status: Not fixed
Vendor Notification: 2015-06-19
Solution Date: -
Public Disclosure: 2015-08-24
CVE Reference: Not yet assigned
Author of Advisory: Matthias Deeg (SySS GmbH)

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Overview:

Netop Remote Control is a widely-used remote support software with many 
features.

The vendor Netop describes the product as follows (see [1]):

"Netop Remote Control is the most secure, trusted and scalable remote 
support  software solution on the market today. We've been helping 
customers grow their enterprises with secure remote control and support
for workstations, servers, embedded systems and mobile devices for 30 
years. Our flexible options provide secure remote access in even the
most complex enterprise environments."

Due to security issues in the credentials management, an attacker with 
access to Netop Remote Configuration files can decrypt and extract 
configured password information (raw MD5 hashes) and perform efficient 
password guessing attacks in order to recover the corresponding 
cleartext passwords, for example with the use of rainbow tables 
(time-memory trade-off).

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Vulnerability Details:

Netop Remote Control stores configuration data in encrypted 
configuration files with the file extension .ndb. The content of these 
files is encrypted with a hard-coded cryptographic key (XOR key) that is 
contained within the executable file NHSTW32.EXE. In the default 
configuration, administrative privileges are required in order to read 
these configuration files that are usually stored in an 
application-specific folder within the Windows ProgramData folder, for 
example in the following location:

* %PROGRAMDATA%\Danware Data\C\Program Files (x86)\Netop\Netop Remote Control\Host

Netop Remote Control password information, i.e. the configured 
maintenance and access password, is stored in the configuration file 
nhstconf.ndb as raw MD5 password hashes. Furthermore, Netop Remote 
Control only supports upper-case passwords with a maximum length of 16 
characters (actually all passwords are padded with spaces [0x20] to the 
maximum password length of 16 characters), which reduces the search 
space for password guessing attacks significantly.

Thus, an attacker with access to Netop Remote Control configuration 
files like nhstconf.ndb can easily decrypt its contents and perform 
password guessing attacks against the extracted MD5 password hashes.

Due to the use of the weak cryptographic hash algorithm MD5 without many 
iterations and a salt, it is possible for an attacker to precompute 
password candidates and thus to perform more efficient dictionary 
attacks with the use  of rainbow tables (time-memory trade-off).

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Proof of Concept (PoC):

The SySS GmbH developed a proof-of-concept software tool for decrypting 
and extracting password information from the Netop Remote Control 
configuration file nhstconf.ndb.

The following output exemplarily shows a successful extraction of the 
two MD5 password hashes for the maintenance and access password:

$ ./netopcfgdecrypt.py nhstconf.ndb
                _____________________________________________________________    
               /    _____       _____ _____                                  \   
              /    /  ___|     /  ___/  ___|                                  \  
             |     \ `--. _   _\ `--.\ `--.                                    | 
             |      `--. \ | | |`--. \`--. \                                   | 
             |     /\__/ / |_| /\__/ /\__/ /                                   | 
              \    \____/ \__, \____/\____/   ... decrypts your configs!      /  
               \          __/ |                                              /   
               /         |___/    __________________________________________/    
              / _________________/                                               
        (__) /_/                                                                 
        (oo)                                                                     
  /------\/                                                                      
 / |____||                                                                       
*  ||   ||                                                                       
   ^^   ^^                                                                       
Netop Config Decryptor v1.1 by Matthias Deeg <[email protected]> - SySS GmbH (c) 2013-2015
[*] Decrypt Netop config file
[*] Decrypted config file saved to 'nhstconf.ndb.dec'
[*] MD5 password hash #1 (maintenance password): a9473ded85aa51851deb4859cdd53f98
[*] MD5 password hash #2 (access password)     : de7124255c6cb70591492236b5b6f04d

In this example, the maintenance password (first MD5 hash) is the empty
password, as the following output shows:

$ echo -n "                " | md5sum
a9473ded85aa51851deb4859cdd53f98  -

The access password (second MD5 hash) is "S3CRET!", as the following 
output illustrates:

$ echo -n "S3CRET!         " | md5sum
de7124255c6cb70591492236b5b6f04d  -

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Solution:

The SySS GmbH is currently not aware of a solution for the reported
security vulnerability.

Please contact the vendor for further information.

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Disclosure Timeline:

2015-06-19: Vulnerability reported to vendor
2015-06-26: Reported vulnerability again as the vendor did not reply to
            to the first e-mail with the SySS security advisory
2015-08-24: Public release of security advisory according to the SySS
            Responsible Disclosure Policy 

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References:

[1] Netop Remote Control Web site
    http://www.netop.com/remote-support.htm
[2] SySS Security Advisory SYSS-2015-025
    https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2015-025.txt
[3] SySS Responsible Disclosure Policy
    https://www.syss.de/en/news/responsible-disclosure-policy/

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