ZYXEL ZyWALL Quagga/Zebra - 'Default Password' Remote Code Execution

Name: ZyXEL ZyWALL Quagga/Zebra Remote Root Vulnerability

Release Date: 10 March 2008

Discover: Pranav Joshi <joshipranav@gmail.com>

Vendor: ZyXEL

Products Affected: ZyWALL



(Status on other affected products & firmwares pending from vendor’s end)



 CVE-2008-1160



 BID 28184



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Technical Details



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The vulnerability in the Quagga/Zebra routing daemon, exists due to the 

fact that the appliance fails to change the password needed to login 

into the Quagga/Zebra daemon running on ports 2601, 2602 (Quagga/RIP) & 

2604 (Quagga/OSPF) /TCP, even though the password of the appliance has 

been changed an attacker can still use the default password ‘zebra’ to 

log into the Quagga/Zebra service to view and manipulate the routing 

information etc. of the appliance. 



The vulnerability was discovered on ZyWall 1050 appliance other versions 

could be affected as well. 



Information on other vulnerable products and firmwares is pending from 

the vendor’s end. 



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