A vulnerability was found in HiNet GPON and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Service Port 6998. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A service which is hosted on port 6998 in HiNet GPON firmware < I040GWR190731 allows an attacker to execute a specific command to read arbitrary files. CVSS 3.0 Base score 9.3. CVSS vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L).

The weakness was released 10/17/2019 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared at tvn.twcert.org.tw. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-15065 since 08/15/2019. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

Upgrading to version I040GWR190731 eliminates this vulnerability.Addressing this vulnerability is possible by firewalling 6998. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 143862 and 143860.

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