Cisco Says Flaws in Industrial Routers, BGP Tool Remain Unpatched 8 Months After Disclosure

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Cisco’s threat intelligence and research unit Talos has disclosed the details of several apparently unpatched vulnerabilities in an MC Technologies industrial router and the GoCast BGP tool.

Talos published advisories for the vulnerabilities last month, and on Monday released a blog post announcing that they have yet to be patched, despite being responsibly disclosed to vendors roughly eight months ago. The advisories indicate that the company first reached out to the impacted vendors in March (MC Technologies) and April (GoCast).

In the case of MC Technologies, a Talos researcher discovered four high-severity vulnerabilities that can lead to arbitrary command injection in the MC LR industrial router.

MC Technologies is a Germany-based company that provides IoT and Industry 4.0 solutions, including industrial and 5G routers, cellular modems, data terminals, antennas, wireless modules, smart meter accessories, and sensors.

Talos found that the MC LR router, specifically the web interface of version 2.10.5, is affected by four OS command injection vulnerabilities that can be exploited by an authenticated attacker.

“A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to arbitrary command execution. An attacker can make an authenticated HTTP request to trigger these vulnerabilities,” Talos explained in its advisories. 

In GoCast, an open source tool designed for controller BGP route advertisements from a host, Talos discovered three critical OS command injection flaws that can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker. 

“A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to arbitrary command execution. An attacker can make an unauthenticated HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability,” Talos explained.

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Technical details have been made public by Talos for each of the vulnerabilities. 

SecurityWeek has reached out to both MC Technologies and GoCast’s developer for comment on Cisco Talos’ findings. This article will be updated if they respond. 

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