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Improper Access Control

CVE-2021-23845

High
8/10

Summary

This vulnerability could allow an attacker to hijack a session while a user is logged in the configuration web page. This vulnerability was discovered by a security researcher in B426 and found during internal product tests in B426-CN/B429-CN, and B426-M and has been fixed already starting from version 3.08 on, which was released on June 2019.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published