ABB Cylon Aspect 3.08.01 (servicesUpdate.php) Remote Code Execution

Title: ABB Cylon Aspect 3.08.01 (servicesUpdate.php) Remote Code Execution
Advisory ID: ZSL-2024-5867
Type: Local/Remote
Impact: System Access, DoS
Risk: (5/5)
Release Date: 06.12.2024
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 blind OS command injection vulnerability. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands through the 'instance' HTTP POST parameter called by servicesUpdate.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 releases version 3.08.02 to address this issue.
[06.12.2024] Coordinated public security advisory released.
PoC
automatrix.py
Credits
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic - <gjoko@zeroscience.mk>
References
[1] https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=9AKK108469A7497&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch
[2] https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48839
[3] https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6209
[4] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6209
[5] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-48839
[6] https://packetstorm.news/files/id/183026/
Changelog
[06.12.2024] - Initial release
[09.12.2024] - Added reference [6]
Contact
Zero Science Lab

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