Name: ZyXEL ZyWALL Quagga/Zebra Remote Root Vulnerability Release Date: 10 March 2008 Discover: Pranav Joshi Vendor: ZyXEL Products Affected: ZyWALL (Status on other affected products & firmwares pending from vendor’s end) CVE-2008-1160 BID 28184 --------------------------- Technical Details --------------------------- The vulnerability in the Quagga/Zebra routing daemon, exists due to the fact that the appliance fails to change the password needed to login into the Quagga/Zebra daemon running on ports 2601, 2602 (Quagga/RIP) & 2604 (Quagga/OSPF) /TCP, even though the password of the appliance has been changed an attacker can still use the default password ‘zebra’ to log into the Quagga/Zebra service to view and manipulate the routing information etc. of the appliance. The vulnerability was discovered on ZyWall 1050 appliance other versions could be affected as well. Information on other vulnerable products and firmwares is pending from the vendor’s end. # milw0rm.com [2008-03-21]