Playing with the Patriot Gauntlet Node (Part 2)

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 22:13:50 +0000

Despite the fact that it’s been over 2 years since I posted Part 1, I got bored and decided I should take another look at the Patriot Gauntlet Node. So I go and grab the latest firmware from Patriot’s website (V21_1.2.4.6) and use the same binwalk techniques described in the first post, I extracted the latest firmware.

So, the TL;DR is: It’s unexciting because Patriot makes no effort to secure the device. It seems that their security model is “if you’re on the network, you own the device”, which is pretty much the case. Not only can you enable telnet as I’ve discussed before, there’s even a convenient web-based interface to run commands: http://10.10.10.254:8088/adm/system_command.asp. Oh, and it’s not authenticated. Even if you set an admin password (which is hidden at http://10.10.10.254:8088/adm/management.asp).

Playing with the Patriot Gauntlet Node (Part 1)

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:54:05 +0000

I recently picked up a Patriot Gauntlet Node just to take a look at it. Playing with the device, it seemed to be a pretty straightforward wireless SoC with a hard drive interface. Many, if not most, of these embedded SoCs use Linux as their operating system, so I decided to go a bit further and see what was going on.

I headed over to the Patriot website and downloaded the firmware for the Gauntlet Node, unzipped the file, and ran binwalk against it. (Binwalk is an awesome tool that essentially runs 'file' with a special magic file against every possible byte offset to find the parts of a firmware image.)

Patriot Gauntlet Node on System Overlord

Playing with the Patriot Gauntlet Node (Part 2)

Playing with the Patriot Gauntlet Node (Part 1)