CVE-2018-6908

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-11-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the Green Electronics RainMachine Mini-8 (2nd Generation) and Touch HD 12 web application allowing an unauthenticated attacker to perform authenticated actions on the device via a 127.0.0.1:port value in the HTTP 'Host' header, as demonstrated by retrieving credentials.

Affected products

Rainmachine Mini-8 Firmware: from 4.0.539 through 4.0.975
Rainmachine Touch Hd 12 Firmware: from 4.0.539 through 4.0.974

References

http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/bsidesrdu2018/bsidesrdu-2018-07-when-it-rains-it-pours-sam-granger
http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/bsidesrdu2018/bsidesrdu-2018-07-when-it-rains-it-pours-sam-granger

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