CVE-2021–39474 : OS Command Injection on UBC1319 Router CPE

Gabriel Romero
2 min readAug 19, 2021

Ubee Interactive UBC1319 this is a DOCSIS 3.0 Advanced Wireless Voice Gateway delivers multi-gigabit speeds and integrates 4 products into a single device: a cable modem, a residential gateway with built-in four-port gigabit Ethernet switch, an 802.11ac dual-band concurrent Wi-Fi access point, and a 2-line multimedia terminal adapter for telephony.

Vulnerability in the product UBC1319BA00 Supported affected version 1319010201r009. The easily exploitable vulnerability allows an attacker with privileges and network access through the “ping.cmd” component to execute commands on the device.

Exploiting vulnerability:

First we need to have a valid session in the login page of the device to be able to carry out the attack.

In my case I used the default credentials that the device brings:

User:     admin
Password: admin

To do this, we will make a request in the “ping.cmd” component in which the “destAddr” field will add the command we want to execute within the special character “grave accent” or `.

The request would be crafted as follows:

http://192.168.100.1/ping.cmd?destAddr=127.0.0.1 `uname -a`&pingCount=3&ping

Where 192.168.100.1 is the IP address of our victim device, ping.cmd is the affected component and destAddr is the vulnerable parameter to command injection.

Proof of concept:

OS command injection on Ubee UBC1319

As you can see, this has returned the output of the command “uname -a” which tells us that the attack was successful.

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Gabriel Romero

Red Team Analyst and Security Researcher, passionate about technology.