Security Advisory SA50647 - Thomson TWG850 Cable Modem Authentication Security Bypass

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Secunia Advisory SA50647

Thomson TWG850 Cable Modem Authentication Security Bypass

Secunia Advisory

SA50647

Release Date

2012-09-27

Last Update

2012-10-12

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

Security Bypass

Where

From local network

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Operating System

Thomson TWG850 Cable Modem

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CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

Description

A security issue has been reported in Thomson TWG850 Cable Modem, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to missing authentication within the web-based management interface when processing requests with the "/goForm" URL. This can be exploited to alter any configuration setting via HTTP POST requests.

The security issue is reported in version ST9A.01.05 and ST9A.01.06. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version ST9A.01.12.

Provided and/or discovered by
Glafkos Charalambous and George Nicolaou

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/1209-exploits/thomson-bypass.txt

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