GCVE-1988-2026-0429

Vulnerability from gna-1988 – Published: 2026-10-02 04:57 – Updated: 2026-10-02 04:57
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Title
[0day-rubbish] MultiTech Conduit AEP 6.3.6 Authenticated import_config filename command injection to root RCE (7.2)
Summary
0day Rubbish Research Team is publicly disclosing a vulnerability in MultiTech Conduit AEP (models mtcdt / mtcdtip / mtcdtiphp), IoT gateways running mLinux on ARM 32-bit. Type: authenticated OS command injection (CWE-78) through the uploaded filename of the admin-only upload_config command. The management API is served by lighttpd on TCP 8080 and proxied to the proprietary FastCGI daemon /usr/bin/rcell_api. The import_config handler wraps the client-supplied filename in single quotes to build import_config '<filename>' and runs it through MTS::System::cmd, which disassembly confirms is popen(cmd, "r"), that is /bin/sh -c. The multipart parser strips only surrounding double quotes and reduces the value to a basename; single quotes are never escaped, so a filename of x'; <CMD> ;# breaks out of the quoting. Scoring. Single base score, not dual-scored: - 7.2 High, CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. PR:H because command/upload_config is granted only in the administrator permission profile. Impact: root command execution on a gateway that bridges constrained field devices with IP infrastructure (the daemon runs as uid 0), giving full filesystem read, configuration rewrite, persistence and pivot. The injected command output is redirected rather than echoed, so the injection is blind at the protocol level and confirmation rests on a server-side artefact. Authentication: authenticated administrator. No factory default credentials exist; the administrator account is provisioned by the deployer at commissioning. An exhaustive review of the unauthenticated surface found no route to this sink without a valid admin session, so the finding is scoped as post-authentication. Verification boundary, stated plainly. Verified end to end by emulation only: the root filesystem extracted from the AEP 6.3.6 firmware image was run under qemu-arm-static inside a chroot and started through its angel supervisor, with no physical Conduit device used at any point. Against the running daemon in socket mode with an admin session established from a non-loopback REMOTE_ADDR, the upload returned {"code":200,"status":"success","type":"upload"} and produced a root-owned marker containing uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root), while a benign filename returned HTTP 400 and created nothing. AEP 6.3.0 is evidenced by patch diff (the import_config handler is unchanged); the claimed range 6.3.0 through 6.3.6 follows from that endpoint comparison and the intermediates were not each executed. Full technical analysis and a reproducible proof-of-concept: https://0day-rubbish.com/blog/multitech-conduit-import-config-command-injection Project archive (ongoing disclosure series): https://github.com/Exploit-Garbage/0day-Rubbish The vendor has been notified through its published security contact. No vulnerability identifier has been assigned to this finding yet. -- 0day Rubbish Research Team disclosure () 0day-rubbish com https://0day-rubbish.com _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
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Multitech Conduit AEP Affected: unknown
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