CVE-2020-17466
Description
Turcom TRCwifiZone through 2020-08-10 allows authentication bypass by visiting manage/control.php and ignoring 302 Redirect responses.
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Affected products
2- Turcom/TRCwifiZonedescription
- Range: <=2020-08-10
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
Root cause
"The application does not enforce authentication checks on manage/control.php, allowing direct access to the admin panel."
Attack vector
An attacker visits http://trcwifizone/manage/control.php [ref_id=1]. The server returns a 302 Redirect response, but if the attacker's HTTP client (e.g., Burp Suite) intercepts and ignores the redirect, the response body containing the admin panel page is disclosed [ref_id=1]. No authentication credentials or session tokens are required, and the attack is performed over the network against the management interface [ref_id=1].
Affected code
The vulnerable endpoint is manage/control.php [ref_id=1] on the TRCwifiZone hotspot management interface. The advisory does not specify any other affected files or functions.
What the fix does
No patch is published in the bundle. The advisory [ref_id=1] does not provide remediation guidance. To close the vulnerability, the application should enforce an authentication check on manage/control.php before returning any admin panel content, and the 302 redirect should not be bypassable by simply ignoring the redirect header.
Preconditions
- networkNetwork access to the TRCwifiZone management interface (http://trcwifizone/manage/)
- inputHTTP client capable of intercepting and ignoring 302 redirect responses (e.g., Burp Suite)
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References
2- cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2020080046mitrex_refsource_MISC
- www.turcom.com.tr/en/urunlerimiz-sorunsuz-internet-trcwifizone.aspmitrex_refsource_MISC
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