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VAR-200603-0529

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-04-03 22:10

The backup configuration option in NETGEAR WGT624 Wireless Firewall Router stores sensitive information in cleartext, which allows remote attackers to obtain passwords and gain privileges. A vulnerability has been reported in NetGear WGT624 Wireless Firewall Routers. When configured to back up configuration settings, the device will store various information in cleartext. Accessing this file could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information that could aid in compromising the device's web administration interface. Note that the backup option is not enabled by default, but is a common feature used by administrators

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CVE-2006-1003 (GCVE-0-2006-1003)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-03-06 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:56

Summary

The backup configuration option in NETGEAR WGT624 Wireless Firewall Router stores sensitive information in cleartext, which allows remote attackers to obtain passwords and gain privileges.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426185	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16837	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Date Public

2006-02-27 00:00

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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