Moxa UDP Device Discovery
Description
The Moxa protocol listens on 4800/UDP and will respond to broadcast or direct traffic. The service is known to be used on Moxa devices in the NPort, OnCell, and MGate product lines. A discovery packet compels a Moxa device to respond to the sender with some basic device information that is needed for more advanced functions. The discovery data is 8 bytes in length and is the most basic example of the Moxa protocol. It may be sent out as a broadcast (destination 255.255.255.255) or to an individual device. Devices that respond to this query may be vulnerable to serious information disclosure vulnerabilities, such as CVE-2016-9361. The module is the work of Patrick DeSantis of Cisco Talos and is derived from original work by K. Reid Wightman. Tested and validated on a Moxa NPort 6250 with firmware versions 1.13 and 1.15.
Author(s)
- Patrick DeSantis <p@t-r10t.com>
Development
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/scanner/scada/moxa_discover
msf auxiliary(moxa_discover) > show actions
...actions...
msf auxiliary(moxa_discover) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(moxa_discover) > show options
...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(moxa_discover) > run 
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