TP-Link Tapo C325WB V2 generates the pre-shared key used by its local media streaming service with a time-seeded pseudo-random number generator, making the key predictable and recoverable. An unauthenticated attacker on the adjacent network can recover the key and authenticate to the media streaming service without valid user credentials.
Successful exploitation may allow an unauthenticated adjacent-network attacker to access and take over live video and audio streams, compromising the confidentiality and integrity of camera media.
Weakness
The product uses insufficiently random numbers or values in a security context that depends on unpredictable numbers.
Potential Mitigations
- Use a well-vetted algorithm that is currently considered to be strong by experts in the field, and select well-tested implementations with adequate length seeds.
- In general, if a pseudo-random number generator is not advertised as being cryptographically secure, then it is probably a statistical PRNG and should not be used in security-sensitive contexts.
- Pseudo-random number generators can produce predictable numbers if the generator is known and the seed can be guessed. A 256-bit seed is a good starting point for producing a “random enough” number.
Related Attack Patterns
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/112.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/485.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/59.html