PT-2018-17153 · Extreme Networks · Extremewireless Wing

Published 2018-02-05 · Updated 2018-02-22 · CVE-2018-5796

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.0

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Extreme Networks ExtremeWireless WiNG versions 5.x before 5.8.6.9 Extreme Networks ExtremeWireless WiNG versions 5.9.x before 5.9.1.3

Description: An issue was discovered in Extreme Networks ExtremeWireless WiNG. There is a hidden root shell that can be accessed by entering the administrator password in conjunction with the 'service start-shell' CLI command.

Recommendations: For versions 5.x before 5.8.6.9, update to version 5.8.6.9 or later. For versions 5.9.x before 5.9.1.3, update to version 5.9.1.3 or later.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-5796

Affected Products

Extremewireless Wing

References · 3

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5796 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5796 · Security Note
• https://gtacknowledge.extremenetworks.com/articles/Vulnerability_Notice/VN-2018-003 · Vendor Advisory