# Exploiting Samsung Router WLAN AP WEA453e
by [Omri Inbar](https://iryl.info/author/omri/ "Posts by Omri Inbar") | Nov
27, 2020 |)

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In August 2020, I discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Samsung WLAN AP
WEA453e, including a pre-auth root RCE, **** which means an attacker could run
code remotely with root privilege's without logging in.
## **Vulnerability#1: XSS**
The first vulnerability I found is an interesting reflected parameter in the
form of an error message when navigating to a nonexistent path:

I tried the most standard XSS payload:
```
<script>alert(1)</script>
```
Sure enough an alert popped:

## **Vulnerability#2: Local File Inclusion (LFI)**
Because the previous error message showed the absolute path "/tmp/www/" I
figured maybe if I tried to backtrack with "../" I could read any file on the
file system.
I Fired up BurpSuite and found something interesting, when I gave a path to a
file that doesn't exist, I got the error message. But when I entered a file
that does exist, I got redirected to the login page:


At this point, I figured that an LFI from here is impossible, but maybe with
an authenticated user, I could get more findings.
I quickly googled the default credentials (root:sweap12~) and logged in. I
then found a very interesting request in the Administration tab. Under "Tech
Support" there is a button that lets you download some sort of compressed file
in tar format.


**Jackpot!**
It looks like the request is vulnerable to **Local File Inclusion** and
**Remote Code Execution!**
We can see that the requests includes the **" command1"** and **" command2"**
parameters which includes Linux commands
**command1 - ** deletes the previous file
**command2 - ** creates the new one
The path which the request is sent to is:
```
(download)/the_path_of_the_newly_created_file
```
From this request, we will be able to run a command, save the output to a
file, and read the file.
We'll start with the LFI and try to change the request path to a file in a
known local path, like **" /etc/shadow"**:

I managed to read "/etc/shadow" which shows us that the server is running
under root privileges.
## **Vulnerability #3: Remote code execution (RCE)**
The next step is to replace the current commands with our own crafted command
and read the output.
I changed the value of **" command1"** to:
```
ls -la | dd of=/tmp/a.txt
```
This command lists the current directory contents and saves the output to
"/tmp/a.txt".
In addition, I changed the request path to "(download)/tmp/a.txt" in order to
read the output of the command.

I tried to change the request method from POST to GET for easier exploitation
and it worked as well:

The last thing I did was to try the exploit without being logged on with a
valid user and to my delight, it worked like a charm. This shows this is an
**Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution**.
https://youtu.be/I5-smUCIBG4
You can find vulnerable instances using a google dork:
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