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CVE-2007-4915

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 68.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-09-17 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Intersil isl3893 extensions for Boa 0.93.15, as used on the FreeLan RO80211G-AP and other devices, do not prevent stack writes from entering memory locations used for string constants, which allows remote attackers to change the admin password stored in memory via a long username in an HTTP Basic Authentication request.

Affected products

• Boa Webserver: 0.93.15

References

• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3151
• http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/router-hacking-challenge/
• http://www.ikkisoft.com/stuff/SN-2007-02.txt
• http://www.securenetwork.it/ricerca/advisory/download/SN-2007-02.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479434/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489009/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25676
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4542
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3151
• http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/router-hacking-challenge/
• http://www.ikkisoft.com/stuff/SN-2007-02.txt
• http://www.securenetwork.it/ricerca/advisory/download/SN-2007-02.txt

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