MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2013-5006

My Net N900 vulnerability

CVSS
4.3
EPSS
4.6%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
main_internet.php on the Western Digital My Net N600 and N750 with firmware 1.03.12 and 1.04.16, and the N900 and N900C with firmware 1.05.12, 1.06.18, and 1.06.28, allows remote attackers to discover the cleartext administrative password by reading the "var pass=" line within the HTML source code.
Affected vendor
Westerndigital
Affected product
My Net N900
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2013-07-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 4.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2013-5006

  • Confirm whether Westerndigital My Net N900 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2013-5006.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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