Android Apps: From Simple Vulnerabilities to Permanent Malware Infection

Introduction

Many people underestimate the possibilities a remote attacker has who managed to exploit a remote code execution vulnerability on Android devices.

On Windows systems, it is widely accepted that a vulnerability in one software can lead to the compromise of other software and, ultimately, to the infection of the whole system. The same is, in fact, also possible for Android, even though many people believe the attacker would be confined to the vulnerable app’s context (in the Android file system and UID/GID sandboxing sense).

In this blog post we will show how a vulnerability in one single app can lead to the permanent (and virtually irreversible) infection of an Android device with malware. To this end we will walk the reader through the single steps that lead […]

By |2021-03-16T14:28:54+01:0031. March 2016|

Burp and TCP Connection Reuse / TCP Streaming

Recently we were working on an engagement to test a fat client using a web service and ran into a problem with Burp. Surprisingly enough, there was not a single resource on the Internet to help us out. Hoping that others dealing with the same issue won’t lose their sanity like we almost did, I am writing this blog post now ;)

We were trying to test a web application, or rather a client application (a binary!) communicating with a web service built on top of an HTTP REST API, with Burp as a transparent/invisible proxy in between. For some completely unknown reason, when Burp was between the client software and the server, the client application just refused to log in.

A comparison of HTTP requests and […]

By |2021-03-16T14:28:47+01:0019. June 2015|

[CVE-2014-5335] CSRF in Innovaphone PBX

Innovaphone PBX Admin-GUI CSRF

Impact: High
CVSS2 Score: 7.8 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:C/E:F/RL:U/RC:C)
Announced: August 21, 2014
Reporter: Rainer Giedat (NSIDE ATTACK LOGIC GmbH, https://www.nsideattacklogic.de/)
Products: Innovaphone PBX Administration GUI
Affected Versions: all known versions (tested 10.00 sr11)
CVE-id: CVE-2014-5335

Summary

The innovaphone PBX is a powerful and sophisticated VoIP telephone system for use in professional business environments. In addition to a wide range of IP telephony functionalities, the innovaphone PBX is also equipped with a perfectly integrated Unified Communications solution that can be enabled as needed at any time and at any workspace.

The innovaphone PBX uses a web-based user interface. This UI is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery attacks (CSRF).

Description

The UI does not check if a request was sent originating from a page it delivered before or from an untrusted and potentially malicious source. With a […]

By |2022-05-19T17:10:09+02:0021. August 2014|
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