D-Link Captcha Bypass
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D-Link released new firmware designed to protect against malware that
alters DNS settings by logging in to the router using default administrative
credentials. There is a flaw in the captcha authentication system that allows
an attacker to glean your WiFi WPA pass phrase from the router with only user-level
access, and without properly solving the captcha.
When you login with the captcha enabled, the request looks like this:
GET /post_login.xml?hash=c85d324a36fbb6bc88e43ba8d88b10486c9a286a&auth_code=0C52F&auth_id=268D2
The hash is a salted MD5 hash of your password, the auth_code is the captcha value that
you entered, and the auth_id is unique to the captcha image that you viewed
(this presumably allows the router to check the auth_code against the proper captcha image).
The problem is that if you leave off the auth_code and auth_id values, some pages in the
D-Link Web interface think that you’ve properly authenticated, as long as you get
the hash right:
GET /post_login.xml?hash=c85d324a36fbb6bc88e43ba8d88b10486c9a286a
Most notably, once you’ve made the request to post_login.xml, you can activate
WPS with the following request:
GET /wifisc_add_sta.xml?method=pbutton&wps_ap_ix=0
When WPS is activated, anyone within WiFi range can claim to be a valid WPS client and
retrieve the WPA passphrase directly from the router.
More info on WPS et al. at http://www.sourcesec.com/2009/05/12/d-link-captcha-partially-broken/
# milw0rm.com [2009-05-15]
