If you’re using the popular rConfig network configuration management utility to protect and manage your network devices, here we have an important and urgent warning for you.
A cybersecurity researcher has recently published details and proof-of-concept exploits for two unpatched, critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in the rConfig utility, at least one of which could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to compromise targeted servers, and connected network devices.
Written in native PHP, rConfig is a free, open source network device configuration management utility that allows network engineers to configure and take frequent configuration snapshots of their network devices.
According to the project website, rConfig is being used to manage more than 3.3 million network devices, including switches, routers, firewalls, load-balancer, WAN optimizers.
What’s more worrisome? Both vulnerabilities affect all versions of rConfig, including the latest rConfig version 3.9.2, with no security patch available at the time of writing.
Discovered by Mohammad Askar, each flaw resides in a separate file of rConfig—one, tracked as CVE-2019-16662, can be exploited remotely without requiring pre-authentication, while the other, tracked as CVE-2019-16663, requires authentication before its exploitation.
- Unauthenticated RCE (CVE-2019-16662) in ajaxServerSettingsChk.php
- Authenticated RCE (CVE-2019-16663) in search.crud.php
In both cases, to exploit the flaw, all an attacker needs to do is access the vulnerable files with a malformed GET parameter designed to execute malicious OS commands on the targeted server.
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