CVE-2015-8289 describes a critical vulnerability in NETGEAR D3600 and D6000 routers, specifically firmware versions 1.0.0.49 and earlier. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to retrieve the cleartext administrator password by accessing the cgi-bin/passrec.asp HTML source code. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a complete compromise of confidentiality. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0.0.49CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netgear:d3600_firmware:1.0.0.49:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.0.0.49CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netgear:d6000_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.