CVE-2021-35973 (GCVE-0-2021-35973)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-30 14:41 – Updated: 2024-08-04 00:47
VLAI?
Summary
NETGEAR WAC104 devices before 1.0.4.15 are affected by an authentication bypass vulnerability in /usr/sbin/mini_httpd, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to invoke any action by adding the &currentsetting.htm substring to the HTTP query, a related issue to CVE-2020-27866. This directly allows the attacker to change the web UI password, and eventually to enable debug mode (telnetd) and gain a shell on the device as the admin limited-user account (however, escalation to root is simple because of weak permissions on the /etc/ directory).
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
CWE
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