CVE-2021-45732

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-12-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-798

Description

Netgear Nighthawk R6700 version 1.0.4.120 makes use of a hardcoded credential. It does not appear that normal users are intended to be able to manipulate configuration backups due to the fact that they are encrypted/obfuscated. By extracting the configuration using readily available public tools, a user can reconfigure settings not intended to be manipulated, repackage the configuration, and restore a backup causing these settings to be changed.

Affected products

NETGEAR R6700: 1.0.4.120

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2021-57
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2021-57

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