CVE-2004-2556 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

NetGear WG602 (aka WG602v1) Wireless Access Point firmware 1.04.0 and 1.5.67 has a hardcoded account of username "super" and password "5777364", which allows remote attackers to modify the configuration.

Published: 2005-11-21

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 1.1% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:h:netgear:wg602:1.04.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:h:netgear:wg602:1.5.67:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2004-2547	NetGear WG602 (aka WG602v1) Wireless Access Point firmware 1.04.0 and 1.5.67 has a hardcoded account of username "super" and password "5777364", which allows remote attackers to modify the configuration.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0115.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-06/0036.html
http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101383.asp
http://secunia.com/advisories/11773
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/08/1319206.shtml?tid=126&tid=172
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-159.shtml
http://www.osvdb.org/6743
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/365230
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10459
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16312

History

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Subscriptions

Netgear Wg602

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-11-21T11:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:29:14.079Z

Reserved: 2005-11-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-2556

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2004-2556

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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