CVE-2017-11435

critical
Published 2017-07-19 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VIR risk
9.8

Description

The Humax Wi-Fi Router model HG100R-* 2.0.6 is prone to an authentication bypass vulnerability via specially crafted requests to the management console. The bug is exploitable remotely when the router is configured to expose the management console. The router is not validating the session token while returning answers for some methods in url '/api'. An attacker can use this vulnerability to retrieve sensitive information such as private/public IP addresses, SSID names, and passwords.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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References

CWEs

CWE-200

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