Description
An issue was discovered on NETGEAR R8500, R8300, R7000, R6400, R7300, R7100LG, R6300v2, WNDR3400v3, WNR3500Lv2, R6250, R6700, R6900, and R8000 devices. They are prone to password disclosure via simple crafted requests to the web management server. The bug is exploitable remotely if the remote management option is set, and can also be exploited given access to the router over LAN or WLAN. When trying to access the web panel, a user is asked to authenticate; if the authentication is canceled and password recovery is not enabled, the user is redirected to a page that exposes a password recovery token. If a user supplies the correct token to the page /passwordrecovered.cgi?id=TOKEN (and password recovery is not enabled), they will receive the admin password for the router. If password recovery is set the exploit will fail, as it will ask the user for the recovery questions that were previously set when enabling that feature. This is persistent (even after disabling the recovery option, the exploit will fail) because the router will ask for the security questions.
Published: 2017-01-17
Score: 8.1 High
EPSS: 93.8% High
KEV: Yes
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Metrics kev

{'dateAdded': '2022-09-08'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Subscriptions

Netgear Ac1450 Ac1450 Firmware D6220 D6220 Firmware D6300 D6300 Firmware D6300b D6300b Firmware D6400 D6400 Firmware Dgn2200bv4 Dgn2200bv4 Firmware R6200 R6200 Firmware R6300 R6300 Firmware Vegn2610 Vegn2610 Firmware Wndr3700v3 Wndr3700v3 Firmware Wndr4000 Wndr4000 Firmware Wndr4500 Wndr4500 Firmware Wnr1000v3 Wnr1000v3 Firmware
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-21T23:55:47.051Z

Reserved: 2017-01-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-5521

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:04:14.997Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-01-17T09:59:00.333

Modified: 2025-10-22T00:16:06.633

Link: CVE-2017-5521

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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