CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-8771

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-09-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-798

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"). The attacker can make a user that is connected to the repeater click on a malicious link that will log into the telnet and will infect the device with malicious code.

Affected configurations

• twsz wifi repeater firmware

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness

References