CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-15803
9.1 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
An issue was discovered on Zyxel GS1900 devices with firmware before 2.50(AAHH.0)C0. Through an undocumented sequence of keypresses, undocumented functionality is triggered. A diagnostics shell is triggered via CTRL-ALT-t, which prompts for the password returned by fds_sys_passDebugPasswd_ret(). The firmware contains access control checks that determine if remote users are allowed to access this functionality. The function that performs this check (fds_sys_remoteDebugEnable_ret in libfds.so) always return TRUE with no actual checks performed. The diagnostics menu allows for reading/writing arbitrary registers and various other configuration parameters which are believed to be related to the network interface chips.
Affected configurations
• zyxel gs1900-8 firmware (< 2.50\(aahh.0\)c0)
• zyxel gs1900-8hp firmware (< 2.50\(aahi.0\)c0)
• zyxel gs1900-10hp firmware (< 2.50\(aazi.0\)c0)
• zyxel gs1900-16 firmware (< 2.50\(aahj.0\)c0)
• zyxel gs1900-24e firmware (< 2.50\(aahk.0\)c0)
• zyxel gs1900-24 firmware (< 2.50\(aahl.0\)c0)
• zyxel gs1900-24hp firmware (< 2.50\(aahm.0\)c0)
• zyxel gs1900-48 firmware (< 2.50\(aahn.0\)c0)
• zyxel gs1900-48hp firmware (< 2.50\(aaho.0\)c0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- https://jasper.la/exploring-zyxel-gs1900-firmware-with-ghidra.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.zyxel.com/support/gs1900-switch-vulnerabilities.shtml Vendor Advisory
- https://jasper.la/exploring-zyxel-gs1900-firmware-with-ghidra.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.zyxel.com/support/gs1900-switch-vulnerabilities.shtml Vendor Advisory