The use of the RSA algorithm without OAEP, or any other padding scheme, in telnetd_startup, allows an unauthenticated attacker on the local area network to achieve a significant degree of control over the "plaintext" to which an arbitrary blob of ciphertext will be decrypted by OpenSSL's RSA_public_decrypt() function. This weakness allows the attacker to manipulate the various iterations of the telnetd startup state machine and eventually obtain a root shell on the device, by means of an exchange of crafted UDP packets. In all versions but K2 22.5.9.163 and K3C 32.1.15.93 a successful attack also requires the exploitation of a null-byte interaction error (CVE-2022-25219).
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: tenable

Published: 2022-03-07T21:50:25

Updated: 2024-08-03T04:36:06.287Z

Reserved: 2022-02-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-25218

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-03-10T17:47:02.133

Modified: 2023-08-08T14:22:24.967

Link: CVE-2022-25218

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