CVE-2018-20785 Information

Description

Secure boot bypass and memory extraction can be achieved on Neato Botvac Connected 2.2.0 devices. During startup the AM335x secure boot feature decrypts and executes firmware. Secure boot can be bypassed by starting with certain commands to the USB serial port. Although a power cycle occurs this does not completely reset the chip: memory contents are still in place. Also it restarts into a boot menu that enables XMODEM upload and execution of an unsigned QNX IFS system image thereby completing the bypass of secure boot. Moreover the attacker can craft custom IFS data and write it to unused memory to extract all memory contents that had previously been present. This includes the original firmware and sensitive information such as Wi-Fi credentials.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://media.ccc.de/v/2018-124-pinky-brain-are-taking-over-the-world-with-vacuum-cleanerst=745

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.4