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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2019-16399 EUVD-2019-7146GHSA-cf5v-wfc8-wfq2

Western Digital WD My Book World through II 1.02.12 suffers from Broken Authentication, which allows an attacker to access the /admin/ dire…

Published Sep 18, 2019 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Western Digital WD My Book World through II 1.02.12 suffers from Broken Authentication, which allows an attacker to access the /admin/ directory without credentials. An attacker can easily enable SSH from /admin/system_advanced.php?lang=en and login with the default root password welc0me.

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