CVE-2017-5521 in netgear r6200 firmware
LogPulse has a published detection rule for this CVE: it raises a notable when someone tries to exploit it.
What the vulnerability is
An issue was discovered on NETGEAR R8500, R8300, R7000, R6400, R7300, R7100LG, R6300v2, WNDR3400v3, WNR3500Lv2, R6250, R6700, R6900, and R8000 devices. They are prone to password disclosure via simple crafted requests to the web management server. The bug is exploitable remotely if the remote management option is set, and can also be exploited given access to the router over LAN or WLAN. When trying to access the web panel, a user is asked to authenticate; if the authentication is canceled and password recovery is not enabled, the user is redirected to a page that exposes a password recovery token. If a user supplies the correct token to the page /passwordrecovered.cgi?id=TOKEN (and password recovery is not enabled), they will receive the admin password for the router. If password recovery is set the exploit will fail, as it will ask the user for the recovery questions that were previously set when enabling that feature. This is persistent (even after disabling the recovery option, the exploit will fail) because the router will ask for the security questions.
Affected software: netgear r6200 firmware, netgear r6300 firmware, netgear vegn2610 firmware, netgear ac1450 firmware, netgear wnr1000v3 firmware, netgear wndr3700v3 firmware, netgear wndr4000 firmware, netgear wndr4500 firmware, netgear d6400 firmware, netgear d6220 firmware
Scores
- CVSS: 8.1 (high)
- EPSS: 89.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- CISA KEV: Known exploited, listed 2022-09-08
- Published: 2017-01-17
What LogPulse has for it
- Detection rule: Yes, published
- Agent check (vulnerable version): No
- Mitigation: No
Source data: NIST NVD, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. LogPulse processes new CVEs every hour.
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