Security scientist John W. Garrett found that a WD nameserver facilitated at oriondns2.wd2go.com was not arranged legitimately, permitting what is known as a DNS zone exchange.
The Domain Name System (DNS), the framework that maps host names to IP addresses, permits a DNS namespace to be isolated into various zones, spoke to by documents that contain all the records for a particular area. Zone exchange is the procedure of replicating the substance of a zone record from an essential DNS server to an optional server.
Since these zone documents contain data that could be helpful to an aggressor, specialists suggest incapacitating zone exchange for open DNS servers. In the event that the nameserver, the web server that runs DNS programming, is mistakenly designed, an aggressor can direct a zone exchange and access the zone record.
Garrett told SecurityWeek that WD's oriondns2.wd2go.com nameserver took into consideration a zone exchange of wd2go.com, offering access to the space's zone document. The scientist found that the zone document contained more than 5.9 million records, including more than 1.1 million one of a kind IP addresses and related hostnames having a place with WD My Cloud clients.
As indicated by Garrett, the way that the zone record was available did not represent a noteworthy security hazard all alone. Be that as it may, the master brought up that the data would have been very helpful for a malevolent performer hoping to misuse a zero-day helplessness in WD My Cloud items, as it gave the assailant a not insignificant rundown of defenseless clients.
"Brought into record with what will be normally put away on a gadget like this and you have a galactic loss of pictures, private points of interest, keeping money data, and so on," Garrett said.
WD said it rectified the design and wiped out the powerlessness inside hours of being advised by the analyst. The same issue was additionally tended to on a second server.
The organization said it examined the greater part of its servers to guarantee that they are not uncovered by comparative issues, and evaluated the engineering and procedures set up for altering the design of nameservers.
"What's more, we performed an engineering and code audit to gauge the potential effect of different dangers recognized by the security report. In view of that audit, we have arranged an adjusted reaction that, in the occasion of location of any dynamic assaults, will relieve those recognized dangers while minimizing potential disturbances to our clients," WD said in a messaged articulation.
Garrett additionally exhorted WD to discharge a product patch to change the hostname of each uncovered gadget, however the merchant established that the procedure presents different issues that exceed the security dangers, particularly since there is no confirmation that somebody other than the specialist got to the zone document.
"We genuinely say thanks to John W. Garrett for drawing in Western Digital to dependably uncover this worry in a way that puts our clients and their security first. We exceptionally esteem and empower this sort of mindful group engagement and shared critical thinking since it at last advantages our clients by improving our items. We urge all security scientists to report potential security vulnerabilities or worries to WD Customer Service and Support," WD said.
Numerous defenseless servers in nature
WD's misconfigured nameserver is only one of the numerous distinguished by Garrett. The scientist said he examined an aggregate of 6.8 million areas and distinguished more than 508,000 defenseless spaces and more than 130,000 helpless nameservers.
"The primary hypothesis is that if a given nameserver takes into account zone record exchange for more than one host; chances are great that the nameserver is misconfigured and will give away zone documents for all hosts it determines for," he clarified.
Garrett reaped the zone records utilizing an instrument he created. The dataset has been made accessible on the Internet-Wide Scan Data Repository (scans.io) facilitated by the Censys Team at the University of Michigan.
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