Getting root shell on NEC Aterm WR8165N via UART by extracting HW_RANDOM_KEY
Getting root shell on NEC Aterm WR8165N via UART by extracting HW_RANDOM_KEY from a firmware dump and running pwcrypt to generate the password.
"We started out by trying to connect to the router via UART and found out that it asks for a username and password in order to log in. We made many attempts using well-known credentials, but we decided that it was time to resort to static analysis in an attempt to find out the correct password."
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