[NEWS] Axis Network Camera Requires No Authentication to Access Sensitive Information

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Date: 12/15/01 

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 13:48:45 +0100 (CET)

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  Axis Network Camera Requires No Authentication to Access Sensitive
Information
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SUMMARY

Axis Network Cameras suffers from a security flaw in the CGI they include.
The vulnerability is that the CGIs are accessible without any requirement
for authentication even though they reveal a lot of sensitive information.

DETAILS

Vulnerable systems:
Axis Network Cameras firmware 2.0x

Immune systems:
Axis Network Cameras firmware 2.12 and above

The Axis Network Cameras contain two CGIs /cgi-bin/paramtool and
/cgi-bin/hwtestio, accessing them requires no authorization of any kind.
This seems to be a mis-configuration of the web server.

Paramtool can be used like this:
http://>/cgi-bin/paramtool?--blargh
This will show the entire configure of the webcam, including:
root.InternalSecurity.Passwd { root { passwd [ "plAsx1.0CzA.wd" ] (...)

This could also reveal dialup info, like phone-numbers, username, and
passwords (If this camera is set up to be serving images through dialup
connection).

Then there is also /cgi-bin/hwtestio, which is really a bad thing to allow
access to.
The CGI will allow you to restart the Camera as many times as you want
("for testing proposes of course).

Example:
You can do "http://>/cgi-bin/hwtestio?-r242424", and the
camera restarts.

Solution:
Upgrading to the latest firmware solves both these issues.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:trenger@trenger.ro> Torgeir
Hansen.

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