{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 13 products.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2017-5521 in the wild since at least 8 Sep 2022.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2017-5521 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 29 Sep 2022.","what":"CVE-2017-5521 is a high-severity vulnerability in Netgear D6220 Firmware, published on 17 Jan 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-5521 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-5521 is a high-severity vulnerability in Netgear D6220 Firmware, published on 17 Jan 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2017-5521 in the wild since at least 8 Sep 2022.\n\nAffected product: Netgear D6220 Firmware. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-5521/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-5521/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-5521","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-5521/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-5521","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-6cqf-r56h-g5xf"],"analysis":{"component_type":"network_device","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read","account_takeover"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"NETGEAR router","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can retrieve admin passwords from NETGEAR routers by exploiting a token disclosure flaw in the web management interface.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"information_disclosure"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"ac1450_firmware","vendor":"netgear"},{"product":"d6220_firmware","vendor":"netgear"},{"product":"d6300_firmware","vendor":"netgear"},{"product":"d6300b_firmware","vendor":"netgear"},{"product":"d6400_firmware","vendor":"netgear"},{"product":"dgn2200bv4_firmware","vendor":"netgear"},{"product":"r6200_firmware","vendor":"netgear"},{"product":"r6300_firmware","vendor":"netgear"},{"product":"vegn2610_firmware","vendor":"netgear"},{"product":"wndr3700v3_firmware","vendor":"netgear"},{"product":"wndr4000_firmware","vendor":"netgear"},{"product":"wndr4500_firmware","vendor":"netgear"},{"product":"wnr1000v3_firmware","vendor":"netgear"}],"cvss":{"score":8.1,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"An issue was discovered on NETGEAR R8500, R8300, R7000, R6400, R7300, R7100LG, R6300v2, WNDR3400v3, WNR3500Lv2, R6250, R6700, R6900, and R8000 devices. They are prone to password disclosure via simple crafted requests to the web management server. The bug is exploitable remotely if the remote management option is set, and can also be exploited given access to the router over LAN or WLAN. When trying to access the web panel, a user is asked to authenticate; if the authentication is canceled and password recovery is not enabled, the user is redirected to a page that exposes a password recovery token. If a user supplies the correct token to the page /passwordrecovered.cgi?id=TOKEN (and password recovery is not enabled), they will receive the admin password for the router. If password recovery is set the exploit will fail, as it will ask the user for the recovery questions that were previously set when enabling that feature. This is persistent (even after disabling the recovery option, the exploit will fail) because the router will ask for the security questions.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2017-01-30","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":1,"nuclei":1,"refs":[{"date":"2017-01-30","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"41205","stars":null,"title":"Netgear Routers - Password Disclosure"},{"date":null,"kind":"metasploit","ref":"auxiliary/gather/netgear_password_disclosure","stars":null,"title":"NETGEAR Administrator Password Disclosure"},{"date":null,"kind":"nuclei","ref":"http/cves/2017/CVE-2017-5521.yaml","stars":null,"title":"NETGEAR Routers - Authentication Bypass"}],"tier":"exploited"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"NETGEAR Multiple Devices Exposure of Sensitive Information","id":"CVE-2017-5521","indexable":true,"kev":{"dateAdded":"2022-09-08","dueDate":"2022-09-29","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Unknown","product":"Multiple Devices","requiredAction":"Apply updates per vendor instructions. If the affected device has since entered end-of-life, it should be disconnected if still in use.","vendorProject":"NETGEAR","vulnerabilityName":"NETGEAR Multiple Devices Exposure of Sensitive Information Vulnerability"},"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"netgear:d6220_firmware","products":["netgear:d6220_firmware","netgear:d6400_firmware","netgear:r6300_firmware","netgear:wndr4500_firmware"],"type":"information_disclosure","year":"2017"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-5522"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"File upload in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-5520"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2017-01-17","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Cross-site request forgery in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-18848","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-04-20"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-17372","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-10-09"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-11059","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-04-28"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0 1.0","name":"CISA KEV"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"BSD-3-Clause","name":"Metasploit"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"MIT","name":"Nuclei templates"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"active","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-10-21","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers can retrieve admin passwords from NETGEAR routers by exploiting a token disclosure flaw in the web management interface.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-5521/"}