CVE-2013-5006

medium

Published 2013-07-31 · Modified 2026-04-29

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

main_internet.php on the Western Digital My Net N600 and N750 with firmware 1.03.12 and 1.04.16, and the N900 and N900C with firmware 1.05.12, 1.06.18, and 1.06.28, allows remote attackers to discover the cleartext administrative password by reading the "var pass=" line within the HTML source code.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-27288 webapps hardware

Kyle Lovett · 2013-08-02

Western Digital My Net Wireless Routers - Password Disclosure

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

References

CWEs

CWE-255

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.