Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by an attackers ability to read arbitrary files. This affects D6220 before 1.0.0.40, D6400 before 1.0.0.74, D7000 before 1.0.1.60, D7800 before 1.0.1.34, D8500 before 1.0.3.39, DGN2200v4 before 1.0.0.94, DGN2200Bv4 before 1.0.0.94, EX6200v2 before 1.0.1.50, EX7000 before 1.0.0.56, JR6150 before 1.0.1.18, R6050 before 1.0.1.10J, R6100 before 1.0.1.16, R6150 before 1.0.1.10, R6220 before 1.1.0.50, R6250 before 1.0.4.12, R6300v2 before 1.0.4.12, R6400 before 1.0.1.24, R6400v2 before 1.0.2.32, R6700 before 1.0.1.26, R6700v2 before 1.2.0.4, R6800 before 1.0.1.10, R6900 before 1.0.1.26, R6900P before 1.0.0.58, R6900v2 before 1.2.0.4, R7000 before 1.0.9.6, R7000P before 1.0.0.58, R7100LG before 1.0.0.32, R7300 before 1.0.0.54, R7500 before 1.0.0.112, R7500v2 before 1.0.3.20, R7800 before 1.0.2.36, R7900 before 1.0.1.18, R8000 before 1.0.3.48, R8300 before 1.0.2.104, R8500 before 1.0.2.104, R9000 before 1.0.2.40, WNDR3400v3 before 1.0.1.14, WNDR3700v4 before 1.0.2.96, WNDR4300v1 before 1.0.2.98, WNDR4300v2 before 1.0.0.48, WNDR4500v3 before 1.0.0.48, and WNR3500Lv2 before 1.2.0.44.
The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| D6220_firmware | Netgear | * | 1.0.0.40 (excluding) |
There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:
Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:
Information exposures can occur in different ways:
It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.