CVE-2017-8230

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However, as a part of security analysis it was identified that a low privileged user who belongs to the \"user\" group and who has access to login in to the web administrative interface of the device can add a new administrative user to the interface using HTTP APIs provided by the device and perform all the actions as an administrative user by using that account. If the firmware version V2.420.AC00.16.R 9/9/2016 is dissected using binwalk tool, one obtains a _user-x.squashfs.img.extracted archive which contains the filesystem set up on the device that many of the binaries in the /usr folder. The binary \"sonia\" is the one that has the vulnerable functions that performs the various action described in HTTP APIs. If one opens this binary in IDA-pro one will notice that this follows a ARM little endian format. The function at address 0x00429084 in IDA pro is the one that processes the HTTP API request for \"addUser\" action. 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Si la versi\u00f3n del firmware V2.420.AC00.16.R 9/9/2016 se diseca con la herramienta binwalk, se obtiene un archivo _user-x.squashfs.img.extracted que contiene el sistema de archivos configurado en el dispositivo que muchos de los binarios en la carpeta / usr. El \"sonia\" binario es el que tiene las funciones vulnerables que realizan las diversas acciones descritas en las API de HTTP. Si uno abre este binario en IDA-pro, notar\u00e1 que sigue un formato ARM little endian. La funci\u00f3n en la direcci\u00f3n 0x00429084 en IDA pro es la que procesa la solicitud de API HTTP para la acci\u00f3n \"addUser\". 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