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Ecessa ShieldLink SL175EHQ 10.7.4 CSRF Add Superuser Exploit

Medium
Advisory ID
ZSL-2018-5476
Release Date
24 June 2018
Vendor
Ecessa Corporation - https://www.ecessa.com
Affected Version
10.7.4, 10.6.9, 10.7.4, 10.6.5.2, 10.5.4, 10.2.24, 9.2.24
Tested On
lighttpd/1.4.35
Summary

Ecessa's ShieldLink 60, 175, 600,1200 & 4000 are advanced, yet highly affordable secure WAN Optimization Controllers that incorporate all of the ISP/WAN link.

Description

The application interface allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to perform certain actions with administrative privileges if a logged-in user visits a malicious web site.

Proof of Concept
Disclosure Timeline
21.05.2018Vulnerability discovered.
21.05.2018Contact with the vendor.
23.06.2018No response from the vendor.
24.06.2018Public security advisory released.
Credits
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic
References
Changelog
24.06.2018Initial release
11.07.2018Added reference [1], [2], [3] and [4]
23.03.2026Added reference [5]