Executive Summary

Summary
Title RSI Video Technologies Videofied security system Frontel software uses an insecure custom protocol
Informations
Name VU#792004 First vendor Publication 2015-11-30
Vendor VU-CERT Last vendor Modification 2015-11-30
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:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Vulnerability Note VU#792004

RSI Video Technologies Videofied security system Frontel software uses an insecure custom protocol

Original Release date: 30 Nov 2015 | Last revised: 30 Nov 2015

Overview

RSI Video Technologies' Videofied security system uses a software named Frontel to monitor alarm status. Frontel uses an insecure custom protocol to communicate with its Frontel server.

Description

Frontel uses a custom protocol running on TCP port 888. The protocol performs an authentication handshake using AES-128 and a pre-shared key, and then sends data.

CWE-321: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key - CVE-2015-8252

The authentication protocol uses a pre-shared key that entirely derived from the serial number of the device. This serial number is transmitted in the plain in messages, allowing an attacker to determine the key.

CWE-311: Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data - CVE-2015-8253

Messages and videos are sent unencrypted after the AES authentication handshake. The messages are sent in plain text, and the videos are sent as MJPEG video.

CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity - CVE-2015-8254

Messages are sent without any integrity protection of the data. Messages may be spoofed to, for example, send false alarm signals or deactivate alarms.

For more information, please see the researcher's blog post.

Impact

A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to spoof messages to manipulate and snoop on data, including video.

Solution

Apply an update

RSI Video Technologies has released an update to Frontel that introduces Frontel protocol version 3 to address these issues. Affected users should receive the update over the next month (by end of December 2015). Affected users are encouraged to update as soon as possible, and to contact RSI with any questions or concerns.

Vendor Information (Learn More)

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
RSI Video TechnologiesAffected06 Aug 201530 Nov 2015
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CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

GroupScoreVector
Base9.4AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N
Temporal7.4E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
Environmental5.5CDP:ND/TD:M/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References

  • http://cybergibbons.com/alarms-2/multiple-serious-vulnerabilities-in-rsi-videofieds-alarm-protocol/
  • http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/321.html
  • http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/311.html
  • http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/345.html

Credit

Thanks to Andrew Tierney for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Garret Wassermann.

Other Information

  • CVE IDs:CVE-2015-8252 CVE-2015-8253CVE-2015-8254
  • Date Public:30 Nov 2015
  • Date First Published:30 Nov 2015
  • Date Last Updated:30 Nov 2015
  • Document Revision:43

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Original Source

Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/792004

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
67 % CWE-200 Information Exposure
33 % CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Alert History

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Date Informations
2015-12-29 00:28:57
  • Multiple Updates
2015-12-27 09:27:42
  • Multiple Updates
2015-11-30 21:24:21
  • First insertion