Sony Misleading Marketing Hides Cracked Backdoor
By: Brian Karas, Published on Jan 25, 2017
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Comments (3)
Rodney Thayer
There should be a CVE number for this issue. The fact there isn't suggests Sony doesn't get CVE's allocated for itself (and nobody shouted loud enough to get the CVE elves to allocate one unilaterally.) Classic example of an epic fail in answer to the question "what's your cyber security posture". The fact a flaw existed is almost less disturbing than their denial process. Although, backdoor passwords have been considered bad for years.
So? How's it' going out there in integrator-land selling vulnerable Sony cameras?
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Undisclosed #1
The Gen6 DES password is easily cracked from the hash in less than two hours.
The real gem here is the revelation of the script syntax surrounding: /debug/start-telnetd-sshd.cgi, which completes the exploit.
This, to my knowledge has not been published by SEC Consult or anyone else, AFAIK.
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Undisclosed #1
Curious, was anyone able to crack the Ipela Gen5 password from this hash?
$1$$mhF8LHkOmSgbD88/WrM790
If so, don't post it, I'm just wondering what the length etc, was actually. Had a process running for a couple weeks on it with no results.
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