CVE-2020-15498

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 5.9

Description

An issue was discovered on ASUS RT-AC1900P routers before 3.0.0.4.385_20253. The router accepts an arbitrary server certificate for a firmware update. The culprit is the --no-check-certificate option passed to wget tool used to download firmware update files.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2020-15498

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2020-08-26T13:15:10

Last Modified Date
2020-09-03T18:51:27

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-295	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/295.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version End
		AND
cpe:2.3:o:asus:rt-ac1900p_firmware::::::::	1	OR	3.0.0.4.385.20253
cpe:2.3:h:asus:rt-ac1900p:-:::::::*	0	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

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

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
4.3

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.1

Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
HIGH

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
5.9

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
2.2

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/security-resources/security-advisories/?fid=27440	Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15498
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15498

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 16:27:09				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 21:31:33	2020-08-26T13:15Z	2020-08-26T13:15:10	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-04 21:31:33		2020-09-03T18:51:27	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-04 21:31:33		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated