PT-2016-3880 · NetGear · Netgear D6000+1

Mandar Jadhav · Published 2016-06-20 · Updated 2016-06-21 · CVE-2015-8289

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NETGEAR D3600 version 1.0.0.49 NETGEAR D6000 versions 1.0.0.49 and earlier

Description The issue concerns the password-recovery feature, which allows remote attackers to discover the cleartext administrator password by reading the HTML source code of the "cgi-bin/passrec.asp" page.

Recommendations For NETGEAR D3600 version 1.0.0.49, update the firmware to a version that fixes this issue. For NETGEAR D6000 versions 1.0.0.49 and earlier, update the firmware to a version that fixes this issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the cgi-bin/passrec.asp page until a patch is available.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-255

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8289

Affected Products

Netgear D3600

Netgear D6000

References · 3

• http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/30490 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8289 · Security Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/778696 · Note