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CVE-2017-8772

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-798

Description

On BE126 WIFI repeater 1.0 devices, an attacker can log into telnet (which is open by default) with default credentials as root (username:"root" password:"root") and can: 1. Read the entire file system; 2. Write to the file system; or 3. Execute any code that attacker desires (malicious or not).

Affected products

• Twsz Wifi Repeater Firmware: all versions

References

• http://www.digitalwhisper.co.il/files/Zines/0x56/DW86-1-RepeaterHack.pdf
• http://www.digitalwhisper.co.il/files/Zines/0x56/DW86-1-RepeaterHack.pdf

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