Title: ABB Cylon Aspect 3.08.01 (networkDiagAjax.php) Remote Network Utility Execution
Advisory ID: ZSL-2024-5844
Type: Local/Remote
Impact: Security Bypass, Exposure of System Information, DoS
Risk: (4/5)
Release Date: 17.10.2024

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 vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to perform network operations such as ping, traceroute, or nslookup on arbitrary hosts or IPs by sending a crafted GET request to networkDiagAjax.php. This could be exploited to interact with or probe internal or external systems, leading to internal information disclosure and misuse of network resources.

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.
[17.10.2024] Public security advisory released.

PoC

abb_aspect_net1.txt

Credits

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

References

[1] https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/182279/

Changelog

[17.10.2024] - Initial release

Contact

Zero Science Lab

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