Netgear Nighthawk hard-coded password

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Netgear Nighthawk and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to hard-coded password. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-47209. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. There is no exploit available. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Netgear Nighthawk (the affected version unknown) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a hard-coded password vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-259. The product contains a hard-coded password, which it uses for its own inbound authentication or for outbound communication to external components. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was shared 12/16/2022. The advisory is shared at tenable.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-47209 since 12/12/2022. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1078.001 for this issue.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Hard-coded password
CWE: CWE-259 / CWE-255
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Partially

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Status: Not defined

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Timelineinfo

12/12/2022 🔍
12/16/2022 +4 days 🔍
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04/18/2025 +854 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: netgear.com

Advisory: tenable.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-47209 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-47209
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-216149

Entryinfo

Created: 12/16/2022 22:20
Updated: 04/18/2025 02:21
Changes: 12/16/2022 22:20 (35), 01/14/2023 14:20 (1), 01/14/2023 14:23 (11), 01/14/2023 14:26 (1), 04/18/2025 02:21 (16)
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