CVE-2017-8772 (GCVE-0-2017-8772)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-20 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:48
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Summary
On BE126 WIFI repeater 1.0 devices, an attacker can log into telnet (which is open by default) with default credentials as root (username:"root" password:"root") and can: 1. Read the entire file system; 2. Write to the file system; or 3. Execute any code that attacker desires (malicious or not).
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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Date Public
2017-08-31 00:00
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