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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CVE-2014-8655

Medium
5/10

Summary

The Compal Broadband Networks (CBN) CH6640E and CG6640E Wireless Gateway 1.0 with firmware CH6640-3.5.11.7-NOSH allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain sensitive information via an (a) admin or a (b) root value in the userData cookie in a request to (1) CmgwWirelessSecurity.xml, (2) DocsisConfigFile.xml, or (3) CmgwBasicSetup.xml in xml/ or (4) basicDDNS.html, (5) basicLanUsers.html, or (6) rootDesc.xml.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-264 - Permissions Privileges and Access Controls

CWE 264 (permissions, privileges, and access controls) is not a weakness in and of itself, rather it is a category of weaknesses related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features used to perform access control. If not addressed, the weaknesses in this category allow attackers to gain privileges for an unintended sphere of control, access sensitive information, and execute arbitrary commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published