Qihoo 360 Whole Home Router M5 Boot Script mpt start hard-coded credentials
Severity and exploitation
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Assessment vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:PAssessment vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:X/RC:CAssessment vector
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Remediation
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What this means
Qihoo 360 Whole Home Router M5 version 4.0.17.1566 has hard-coded credentials in the Boot Script's mpt start function, which may be remotely exploitable. The vendor did not respond to disclosure.
Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.Attack conditions
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Qihoo 360 · VulDB
Whole Home Router M5
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Qihoo 360 · VulDB
Whole Home Router M5
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affected
4.0.17.1566
Other versions: unknown
Product identifiers (CPE)
cpe:2.3:h:qihoo_360:whole_home_router_m5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*What to do
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Public exploit evidence
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gist.github.com/gajgdm6-cpu/c8c3bbdeb51c076317834b41c3a919f2 ↗Attributed to VulDBOriginal source description
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A vulnerability was identified in Qihoo 360 Whole Home Router M5 4.0.17.1566. This issue affects the function Home of the file /etc/init.d/mpt of the component Boot Script. The manipulation leads to hard-coded credentials. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
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