Draytek 2900 router exposes its config to the outside

The Draytek 2900Gi exposes its login to the outside network, via
HTTPS. Not very clever, and disabling "configuration from the
internet" which is supposed to stop this, doesn't actually stop it.
This exposes the router to dictionary attacks, or DOS attacks, the
latter being possible because the router's processor has to run some
crypto software to run HTTPS.

I got a security specialist from a big IT infrastructure company to do
a security check on our system and he found this.

We are running the latest firmware, emailed straight to us from
Draytek Taiwan.


Peter.
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On 15 Nov 2004 in uk.telecom.broadband, Peter wrote:

>The Draytek 2900Gi exposes its login to the outside network,

The cheap ones I've used allow for the port to be defined, rather than
using common ones such as 80, 81, 8080, etc. Also some allow a fixed
IP to be defined as an 'allowed' connection. OK, it might be 'spoofed'
but an attacker would presumably not get any return traffic :-) PGM


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"Peter M" <us-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On 15 Nov 2004 in uk.telecom.broadband, Peter wrote:
>
>>The Draytek 2900Gi exposes its login to the outside network,
>
> The cheap ones I've used allow for the port to be defined, rather than
> using common ones such as 80, 81, 8080, etc. Also some allow a fixed
> IP to be defined as an 'allowed' connection. OK, it might be 'spoofed'
> but an attacker would presumably not get any return traffic :-) PGM

Yes the 2600 lets you do both of these. Careful when specifying IP addresses
to be defined as an allowed connection (the 2600 lets you add three) - I
managed to lock myself out of the router for a day as you need to specify
local/internal IP addresses also!

Just tried my 2600 with a "https" type connection - no connection was
possible (running latest firmware).