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"Cablehaunt" Cable Modem WebSocket DoS

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Disclosed
Jan 7, 2020
Created
Apr 1, 2020

Description

There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in certain
Cable Modem Spectrum Analyzer interfaces. This overflow
is exploitable, but since an exploit would differ between
every make, model, and firmware version (which also
differs from ISP to ISP), this module simply causes a
Denial of Service to test if the vulnerability is present.

Authors

Alexander Dalsgaard Krog (Lyrebirds)
Jens Hegner Stærmose (Lyrebirds)
Kasper Kohsel Terndrup (Lyrebirds)
Simon Vandel Sillesen (Independent)
Nicholas Starke

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use auxiliary/dos/http/cable_haunt_websocket_dos
    msf auxiliary(cable_haunt_websocket_dos) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(cable_haunt_websocket_dos) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(cable_haunt_websocket_dos) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(cable_haunt_websocket_dos) > run
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