Cisco · Small Business RV320 and RV325 Routers
CVE-2019-1653
Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Routers Information Disclosure Vulnerability
What it is
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to retrieve sensitive information. The vulnerability is due to improper access controls for URLs. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting to an affected device via HTTP or HTTPS and requesting specific URLs. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to download the router configuration or detailed diagnostic information. Cisco has released firmware updates that address this vulnerability.
CISA: Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Routers contain improper access controls for URLs. Exploitation could allow an attacker to download the router configuration or detailed diagnostic information.
What to do
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Deadline for US federal agencies: May 3, 2022
- Added to the CISA list
- November 3, 2021
- Published
- January 24, 2019
- Severity
- High 7.5 CVSS 3.0
- Chance of attacks in the next 30 days (EPSS)
- 99.9% in the top 0.1% of all known vulnerabilities
- Weakness
- CWE-284
- More details
- NVD · CVE.org · CISA
All references (15)
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190123-rv-info
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx0RQJDlGbY
- https://badpackets.net/over-9000-cisco-rv320-rv325-routers-vulnerable-to-cve-2019-1653/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106732
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46262/
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Mar/60
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Mar/59
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/54
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/53
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152260/Cisco-RV320-Unauthenticated-Configuration-Export.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152261/Cisco-RV320-Unauthenticated-Diagnostic-Data-Retrieval.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152305/Cisco-RV320-RV325-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46655/
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-are-going-after-cisco-rv320rv325-routers-using-a-new-exploit/
- https://threatpost.com/scans-cisco-routers-code-execution/141218/
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Sources: Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (CISA, public domain), CVE records (cve.org) and EPSS (FIRST). The chance of attacks is the EPSS estimate that someone will try to exploit the flaw in the next 30 days.