NETGEAR WAC104 devices before 1.0.4.15 are affected by an authentication bypass vulnerability in /usr/sbin/mini_httpd, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to invoke any action by adding the &currentsetting.htm substring to the HTTP query, a related issue to CVE-2020-27866. This directly allows the attacker to change the web UI password, and eventually to enable debug mode (telnetd) and gain a shell on the device as the admin limited-user account (however, escalation to root is simple because of weak permissions on the /etc/ directory).
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-06-30T14:41:04

Updated: 2024-08-04T00:47:43.087Z

Reserved: 2021-06-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-35973

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-06-30T15:15:10.607

Modified: 2022-07-12T17:42:04.277

Link: CVE-2021-35973

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