id: CVE-2021-40859 info: name: Auerswald COMpact 5500R 7.8A and 8.0B Devices Backdoor author: pussycat0x severity: critical description: Auerswald COMpact 5500R 7.8A and 8.0B devices contain an unauthenticated endpoint ("https://192.168.1[.]2/about_state"), enabling the bad actor to gain backdoor access to a web interface that allows for resetting the administrator password. remediation: | Apply the latest firmware update provided by Auerswald to fix the backdoor vulnerability. reference: - https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/secret-backdoors-found-in-german-made.html - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40859 - https://www.redteam-pentesting.de/en/advisories/-advisories-publicised-vulnerability-analyses - https://www.redteam-pentesting.de/en/advisories/rt-sa-2021-007/-auerswald-compact-multiple-backdoors classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H cvss-score: 9.8 cve-id: CVE-2021-40859 epss-score: 0.02655 epss-percentile: 0.89264 cpe: cpe:2.3:o:auerswald:compact_5500r_firmware:7.8a:build002:*:*:*:*:*:* metadata: max-request: 1 vendor: auerswald product: compact_5500r_firmware fofa-query: '"auerswald"' tags: cve,cve2021,iot,unauth,voip,auerswald http: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/about_state" matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: body words: - '"pbx"' - '"dongleStatus":0' - '"macaddr"' condition: and - type: word part: header words: - "application/json" - type: status status: - 200 # digest: 4b0a00483046022100c4d41653340eb22d2134847e23730a67e64c6c002f868e0c790b9b0a1625274d02210083d08313b40db2206e09b41aeaa7bffbaa19d24bdcc05fede7881996eee5005e:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950