Title: ABB Cylon Aspect 3.08.01 (mapConfigurationDownload.php) Config Download
Advisory ID: ZSL-2024-5843
Type: Local/Remote
Impact: Security Bypass, Exposure of System Information, Exposure of Sensitive Information, System Access, DoS, Privilege Escalation
Risk: (5/5)
Release Date: 16.10.2024

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.

Description

The ABB BMS/BAS controller suffers from an unauthenticated configuration download vulnerability. This can be exploited to download the SQLite DB that contains the configuration mappings information via the FTControlServlet by directly calling the mapConfigurationDownload.php script.

Vendor

ABB Ltd. - https://www.global.abb

Affected Version

NEXUS Series, MATRIX-2 Series, ASPECT-Enterprise, ASPECT-Studio
Firmware: <=3.08.01

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)

Vendor Status

[21.04.2024] Vulnerability discovered.
[22.04.2024] Vendor contacted.
[22.04.2024] Vendor responds.
[02.05.2024] Working with the vendor.
[07.08.2024] Vendor released version 3.08.02 to address this issue.
[16.10.2024] Public security advisory released.

PoC

abb_aspect_config1.txt

Credits

Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic - <gjoko@zeroscience.mk>

References

[1] https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/182254/

Changelog

[16.10.2024] - Initial release

Contact

Zero Science Lab

Web: https://www.zeroscience.mk
e-mail: lab@zeroscience.mk