VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-8772

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.41%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-09-20
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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).

Weakness classification

  • CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Primary references