CVE-2017-14243 is an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting UTStar WA3002G4 ADSL Broadband Modems. This critical flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to directly access administrative settings and retrieve cleartext credentials from the device's HTML source. With a CVSS score of 9.8, the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not observed in active exploitation, a public exploit is available on ExploitDB, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
wa3002g4-0021.01CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:utstar:wa3002g4_firmware:wa3002g4-0021.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.