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CVE-2020-9425
published 2020-03-20

CVE-2020-9425: An issue was discovered in includes/head.inc.php in rConfig before 3.9.4. An unauthenticated attacker can retrieve saved cleartext credentials via a GET…

PriorityP263high7.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCHINAN
EXPLOIT
EPSS
16.67%
96.6th percentile
An issue was discovered in includes/head.inc.php in rConfig before 3.9.4. An unauthenticated attacker can retrieve saved cleartext credentials via a GET request to settings.php. Because the application was not exiting after a redirect is applied, the rest of the page still executed, resulting in the disclosure of cleartext credentials in the response.

Affected

1 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
rconfigrconfig< 3.9.43.9.4

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

path/settings.php
pathincludes/head.inc.php
otherdefaultNodeUsername
otherdefaultNodePassword
  • Send an unauthenticated HTTP GET request to /settings.php; a vulnerable rConfig instance will return HTTP 200 with cleartext credential fields in the response body instead of redirecting.
  • Match response body for both 'defaultNodeUsername' and 'defaultNodePassword' strings simultaneously with HTTP status 200 to confirm exploitation.
  • Use Shodan query 'http.title:"rconfig"', FOFA query 'title="rconfig"', or Google dork 'intitle:"rconfig"' to identify exposed rConfig instances for scanning.
  • ·Vulnerability only affects rConfig versions prior to 3.9.4; patched instances will properly redirect and not return credential data.
  • ·The root cause is a missing exit/die after redirect logic in includes/head.inc.php, causing the rest of the page (including credentials) to render in the HTTP response body even when a redirect header is set.

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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