Linksys BEFVP4 SNMP Community String Information Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:7317

Info

Linksys BEFVP4 SNMP Community String Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 7317
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 09 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 09 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to Branson Matheson <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Linksys BEFVP41 1.40 .4
Linksys BEFVP41 1.40 .3f
Linksys BEFSR81
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Linksys BEFVP4 SNMP Community String Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Linksys BEFVP4 VPN router has been reported prone to a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability.

It has been reported that SNMP community strings which, are world readble by default, contain sensitive information pertaining to the internal protected network.

Data collected in this manner may be used in further attacks against the victim network.

It should be noted that this issue has also been reported to affect the Linksys BEFSR81 appliance.

Exploit / POC

Linksys BEFVP4 SNMP Community String Information Disclosure Vulnerability

The following proof of concept was supplied:

snmpwalk -v 1 -c public {ip}

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