CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2017-16778 — Fermax Outdoor Panel Firmware security vulnerability
An access control weakness in the DTMF tone receiver of Fermax Outdoor Panel allows physical attackers to inject a Dual-Tone-Multi-Frequency (DTMF) tone to invoke an access grant that would allow physical access to a restricted floor/level. By design, only a residential unit owner may allow such an access grant. However, due to incorrect access control, an attacker could inject it via the speaker unit to perform an access grant to gain unauthorized access, as demonstrated by a loud DTMF tone representing '1' and a long '#' (697 Hz and 1209 Hz, followed by 941 Hz and 1477 Hz).
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 4.6 (3.1)
- Published
- 2019-12-24
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
Affected products
- fermax / outdoor_panel_firmware
Matched remediation archetype
Authorization bypass, IDOR, and cross-tenant access
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Check exposure
- Map object and action authorization checks across API, UI, batch, import/export, and background-job paths.
- Identify tenant, ownership, role, and policy boundaries for affected resources and administrative operations.
- Use synthetic fixtures to compare intended access matrices without accessing another user's real data.
Remediate safely
- Enforce server-side authorization at each resource access and state transition using the authenticated principal and trusted tenant context.
- Scope data queries by tenant and ownership; treat client-supplied identifiers, roles, and policy claims as untrusted.
- Add deny-by-default policy tests for horizontal and vertical access across every affected transport.
Authoritative sources
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