PT-2016-3880
CVE-2015-8289
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Published
2016-06-20
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Updated
2016-06-21
Description by
CVSS 2.0
4.3
MediumMetricsAV: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.
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