CVE-2008-1264 (GCVE-0-2008-1264)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-03-10 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:17
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Summary
The Linksys WRT54G router has "admin" as its default FTP password, which allows remote attackers to access sensitive files including nvram.cfg, a file that lists all HTML documents, and an ELF executable file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2008-02-29 00:00
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