CVE-2017-8772

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Publication date:

20/09/2017

Last modified:

20/04/2025

Description

On BE126 WIFI repeater 1.0 devices, an attacker can log into telnet (which is open by default) with default credentials as root (username:"root" password:"root") and can: 1. Read the entire file system; 2. Write to the file system; or 3. Execute any code that attacker desires (malicious or not).

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.80

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete