Executive Summary

Summary
Title Comcast XFINITY Home Security fails to properly handle wireless communications disruption
Informations
Name VU#418072 First vendor Publication 2016-01-05
Vendor VU-CERT Last vendor Modification 2016-01-05
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision M

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 3.3 Attack Range Adjacent network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 6.5 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Vulnerability Note VU#418072

Comcast XFINITY Home Security fails to properly handle wireless communications disruption

Original Release date: 05 Jan 2016 | Last revised: 05 Jan 2016

Overview

Comcast XFINITY Home Security does not fail securely, which may be leveraged to avoid triggering alarm events.

Description

CWE-636: Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open')

Comcast XFINITY Home Security system components use the ZigBee communication protocol over a 2.4 GHz radio frequency band to maintain state between sensors and the base station. When component communications are disrupted, the system does not trigger any alerts and additionally may take from minutes to hours to re-establish communications, during which time no alarm escalation occurs. An attacker capable of disrupting wireless communications can avoid triggering Home Security alarm events.

For more details, refer to Rapid7's disclosure.

Impact

A physically proximate attacker capable of disrupting wireless communications can avoid triggering Home Security system alarm events.

Solution

The CERT/CC is currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem.

Vendor Information (Learn More)

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
ComcastAffected24 Nov 201505 Jan 2016
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CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

GroupScoreVector
Base3.3AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Temporal2.8E:POC/RL:U/RC:UR
Environmental4.2CDP:LM/TD:M/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:H

References

  • https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2016/01/05/r7-2015-23-comcast-xfinity-home-security-system-insecure-fail-open
  • http://www.xfinity.com/home-security
  • http://www.wired.com/2016/01/xfinitys-security-system-flaws-open-homes-to-thieves/
  • https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/636.html

Credit

Thanks to Tod Beardsley and Phil Bosco of Rapid7, Inc, for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Joel Land.

Other Information

  • CVE IDs:Unknown
  • Date Public:05 Jan 2016
  • Date First Published:05 Jan 2016
  • Date Last Updated:05 Jan 2016
  • Document Revision:10

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Original Source

Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/418072

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-254 Security Features

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

Alert History

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Date Informations
2016-03-04 17:27:05
  • Multiple Updates
2016-02-17 21:30:42
  • Multiple Updates
2016-01-05 21:23:16
  • First insertion