This vulnerability exists in Tenda wireless routers (300Mbps Wireless Router F3 and N300 Easy Setup Router) due to the use of login credentials as the session ID through its web-based administrative interface. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by intercepting network traffic and capturing the session ID during insecure transmission.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow the attacker to hijack an authenticated session and compromise sensitive configuration information on the targeted device.
Authenticating a user, or otherwise establishing a new user session, without invalidating any existing session identifier gives an attacker the opportunity to steal authenticated sessions.
Such a scenario is commonly observed when:
In the generic exploit of session fixation vulnerabilities, an attacker creates a new session on a web application and records the associated session identifier. The attacker then causes the victim to associate, and possibly authenticate, against the server using that session identifier, giving the attacker access to the user’s account through the active session.