Overview

On August 11, 2020, a 3rd party security researcher submitted a report accusing the DSR-250 Hardware Revision A1 using firmware v3.17 or older (2) of unauthenticated & authenticated command injection vulnerabilities. Since this product shares firmware with other models in the DSR Family, DSR-150 / DSR-250 / DSR-500 / DSR-1000AC will require updates to patch these issues. Please see below for more information with regard to the reported vulnerabilities and the latest updates.

3rd Party Report information

Report provided :: Digital Defense, Inc. Vulnerability Research Team :: LINK

                     Coordination: Samuel Shapiro:: VulnerabilityResearch _at_ digitaldefense _dot_ com

Report :

Issue 1: Unauthenticated Remote LAN/WAN Root Command Injection

Impact: Unauthenticated users with access to the "Unified Services Router" web interface, either on LAN or WAN, can inject arbitrary commands via crafted requests, which will be executed with root privileges.

Details: The following lua cgi actions, which are accessible without authentication, execute a lua library function which passes user-supplied data to a call to os.popen() as part of a command intended to calculate a hash: /platform.cgi?action=duaAuth, /platform.cgi?action=duaLogout

Fix: Under Development Estimated Release Mid-December 2020 

Issue 2: Authenticated Root Command Injection

Impact: Authenticated users with access to the "Unified Services Router" web interface, either on LAN or WAN, can inject arbitrary commands via crafted requests, which will be executed with root privileges.

Details: The Lua CGI, which handles requests from the "Package Management" form in the "Unified Services Router" web interface, has no server-side filtering for the multi-part POST parameters payload, which are passed to os. execute () functions intended to move the uploaded file to another directory.

Fix: Under Development Estimated Release Mid-December 2020 

Issue 3: Authenticated Crontab Injection

Impact: Authenticated users with access to the "Unified Services Router" web interface, either on LAN or WAN, can inject arbitrary CRON entries, which will be executed as root by modifying a downloaded router configuration file, updating the CRC, and reuploading the resulting crafted configuration file.

Details: The configuration file's mechanism is authenticated upon upload is trivially bypassed by a malicious user creating a crafted configuration file that adds new cron entries to execute arbitrary commands as root. 

Response: D-Link declined recognition of this report. For this generation of product, the device uses a plain text config, which is the design to directly edit and upload the config to the same DSR devices accordingly. If D-Link mitigates issue #1 and #2, as well as other, recently reported issues, the malicious user would need to engineer a way of gaining access to the device to upload a configuration file, so we understand the report but classify the report as low-threat once the patched firmware is available.

 Affected Models

This list will be updated in due course.