Cybersecurity researchers with Vulnerability Lab have uncovered two security vulnerabilities in Imperial Dabman IoT radios that could enable attackers to gain control over more than a million devices and use them to plant malware, enslave them into a botnet, and retrieve sensitive data including the Wi-Fi password of the network the device is connected to.
The most critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-13473, describes the existence of an undocumented, persistent and weakly secured Telnet service that connects to Port 23 of the device. The service is “secured” by means of a hardcoded password, which is “password.” Accessing this service provides attackers with root privileges on the device. A second flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-13474), can enable attackers to execute unauthorized commands on impacted radios.
Read more: Telnet Backdoor Opens More Than 1M IoT Radios to Hijack
