CVE-2017-8772

CVSS V2 High 10 CVSS V3 Critical 9.8

Description

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).

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2017-8772

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2017-09-20T14:29:00

Last Modified Date
2017-09-28T19:25:50

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-798	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/798.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator
		AND
cpe:2.3:o:twsz:wifi_repeater_firmware:-:::::::*	1	OR
cpe:2.3:h:twsz:wifi_repeater:-:::::::*	0	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE

Integrity Impact
COMPLETE

Availability Impact
COMPLETE

Base Score
10

Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
10

Impact Score
10

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

Vector String
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
HIGH

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
9.8

Base Severity
CRITICAL

Exploitability Score
3.9

Impact Score
5.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://www.digitalwhisper.co.il/files/Zines/0x56/DW86-1-RepeaterHack.pdf	Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8772
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8772

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 08:28:17				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 21:11:49	2017-09-20T14:29Z	2017-09-20T14:29:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 21:11:49		2017-09-28T19:25:50	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 21:11:49		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated