CVE-2017-3216
CVE-2017-3216 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Intelligence
WiMAX routers based on the MediaTek SDK (libmtk) that use a custom httpd plugin are vulnerable to an authentication bypass allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain administrator access to the device by performing an administrator password change on the device via a crafted POST request.
Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, certcc
Triage
Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.
Exploitation
Unreported
no source claims exploitation
EPSS
5%
chance of exploitation in 30 days
CVSS base
Unscored
no source published a base score
Affected scope
The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.
Vendors (5)
Products (14)
Weakness & attack patterns
- CWE-306
References
3 on the record
- blog.sec-consult.com/2017/06/ghosts-from-past-authentication-bypass.html
x_refsource_MISC
- sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20170607-0_Various_WiMAX_CPEs_Authentication_Bypass_v10.txt
x_refsource_MISC
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/350135
third-party-advisory, x_refsource_CERT-VN
Elsewhere on this site
- huawei technologiesevery CVE for this vendor
- green packetevery CVE for this vendor
- zteevery CVE for this vendor
- CWE-306other pages naming this weakness
Not in any source we poll
Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.
- No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
- No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
- No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.