A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Netgear R7500v2, R7800, WN3000RPv3, WNDR4300v2 and WNDR4500v3 (Wireless LAN Software). Affected is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by incorrect configuration of security settings. This affects R7500v2 before 1.0.3.20, R7800 before 1.0.2.38, WN3000RPv3 before 1.0.2.50, WNDR4300v2 before 1.0.0.50, and WNDR4500v3 before 1.0.0.50.

The weakness was shared 04/24/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at kb.netgear.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-21229 since 04/20/2020. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The attack can only be done within the local network. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

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• Wireless LAN Software

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• Netgear

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• R7500v2
• R7800
• WN3000RPv3
• WNDR4300v2
• WNDR4500v3

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• commercial

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