Although the device use a wierd authentication method, it is nothing more than a gimmick used by the UI code to give an illusion of authentication. All the endpoints are accessible directly without authentication and the best part of it all is you can use the admin endpoint to get the username and password for the router.

The output of the admin endpoint is something like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<RGW>
	<management>
		<router_username>admin</router_username>
		<router_password>admin</router_password>
		<web_wlan_enable/>
		<httpd_port/>
		<syslogd_enable/>
		<web_wan_enable/>
		<syslogd_rem_ip/>
		<turbo_mode/>
        <customer/>
	</management>
</RGW>

The vulerability explained above is well know and quite old but wait, There's more! to my knowledge(not sure though) the Fiber Home version of the Zong devices are unlocked by default but if yours is not, you can use a simple trick to get super user access and unlock the device direcltly from the Admin Panel all you have to do is login to your router and change the default username from admin to root and voila you can see a new tab named Advance in Settings which provides options to unlock the device, As shown below

It gets more interesting once you do a portscan of the device. The portscan shows the following ports to be open

• 22 - SSH
• 53 - DNS
• 80 - HTTP (Admin Panel)
• 3020 - Unknown
• 3021 - Unknown
• 5555 - ADB

You can ssh into the device as root using password oelinux123

These ports are standard DNS and HTTP ports

Base URL: /xml_action.cgi?method=get&module=duster&file=[name] known file names are:

• admin
• app_fun_support_list
• battery_charge
• custom_fw
• detailed_log
• dns
• download_local_upgrade
• lan
• lock_cell_clear
• message
• message_drafts
• message_outbox
• message_set
• message_state
• message_state
• net_advace_set
• ntp_server
• pin_puk
• reset
• restore_defaults
• shutdown
• status1
• time_setting
• traffic_excess_set
• uapxb_wlan_basic_settings
• uapxb_wlan_security_settings
• upgrade_info
• ussd_business
• wan
• wan_choose_net
• wan_ip
• wlan_auto_setting

Port 3020 is interesting once you connect to it it immediatly send the banner ms_version:1 and then appears to send/receive nothing but if you keep connected it starts sending packets with JSON payloads "periodically" which appears to be 4-byte length prefixed, see the sample payloads below

{
	"operate": "report",
	"service_name": "modem",
	"signal_strength": 2
}

{
	"operate": "report",
	"service_name": "modem",
	"signal_strength_v1": [
		{
			"cdma_dbm": 0,
			"evdo_dbm": -125,
			"gsm_signal_strength": 0,
			"lte_rsrp": -112,
			"operator_type": 2,
			"tds_signal_strength": 0,
			"wcdma_signal_strength": 0
		}
	]
}

This port lets you connect to it and keeps the connection open as long as you don't send anything but as soon as you send something it immediately disconnects, possibly expects somekind of pattern IMO(these kinds of ports were found on other routers too)

This port runs an unauthenticated adb daemon so you can easily connect to it using adb and get shell access as follow

adb connect 192.168.8.1:5555
adb shell

you will get access as root user so you can pretty much do anything you want.

You can list the flash partitions using:

cat /proc/mtd

Output:

dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00140000 00020000 "sbl"
mtd1: 00140000 00020000 "mibib"
mtd2: 00b00000 00020000 "efs2"
mtd3: 00360000 00020000 "sdi"
mtd4: 00360000 00020000 "tz"
mtd5: 000c0000 00020000 "mba"
mtd6: 00360000 00020000 "rpm"
mtd7: 031e0000 00020000 "qdsp"
mtd8: 000e0000 00020000 "appsbl"
mtd9: 00800000 00020000 "apps"
mtd10: 00040000 00020000 "scrub"
mtd11: 04a80000 00020000 "cache"
mtd12: 00160000 00020000 "misc"
mtd13: 00560000 00020000 "cdrom"
mtd14: 002e0000 00020000 "logo"
mtd15: 00800000 00020000 "recovery"
mtd16: 00100000 00020000 "fota"
mtd17: 01080000 00020000 "recoveryfs"
mtd18: 01080000 00020000 "system"
mtd19: 12e80000 00020000 "userdata"

you can just cat the device and pipe the data to a file e.g. ssh [email protected] "cat /dev/mtd18" > system.img to get the system image

Its just a linux filesystem, fun stuff can be found in /usr/mifi/. Some of the configurations are also stored in sqlite 3 databases and can be found in /usr/data/

Thanks to IMExperts for providing the ssh password as well as mentioning that port 5555 is running adb