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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2017-18790

Medium
6.2/10

Summary

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by disclosure of sensitive information. This affects R6700 before 1.0.1.26, R7000 before 1.0.9.10, R7100LG before 1.0.0.32, R7900 before 1.0.1.18, R8000 before 1.0.3.54, and R8500 before 1.0.2.100.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published