A vulnerability was found in Newtec iDirect NTC2218, NTC2250 and NTC2299 up to 2.2.6.19. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Web Administration Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in Newtec/iDirect NTC2218, NTC2250, NTC2299 on Linux, PowerPC, ARM allows Local Code Inclusion.This issue affects NTC2218, NTC2250, NTC2299: from 1.0.1.1 through 2.2.6.19. The `commit_multicast` page used to configure multicasts in the modem's web administration interface uses improperly parses incoming data from the request before passing it to an `eval` statement in a bash script. This allows attackers to inject arbitrary shell commands.

The weakness was published by James Pavur. The advisory is shared at doi.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-13502 since 01/17/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/17/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Newtec iDirect

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• NTC2218
• NTC2250
• NTC2299

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• 2.2.6.0
• 2.2.6.1
• 2.2.6.2
• 2.2.6.3
• 2.2.6.4
• 2.2.6.5
• 2.2.6.6
• 2.2.6.7
• 2.2.6.8
• 2.2.6.9
• 2.2.6.10
• 2.2.6.11
• 2.2.6.12
• 2.2.6.13
• 2.2.6.14
• 2.2.6.15
• 2.2.6.16
• 2.2.6.17
• 2.2.6.18
• 2.2.6.19

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