CVE-2014-2046

critical

Published 2014-05-14 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

cgi-bin/rpcBridge in the web interface 1.1 on Broadcom Ltd PIPA C211 rev2 does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to (1) obtain credentials and other sensitive information via a certain request to the config.getValuesHashExcludePaths method or (2) modify the firmware via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-33353 webapps hardware verified

Portcullis · 2014-05-14

Broadcom PIPA C211 - Sensitive Information Disclosure

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
broadcom	pipa_c211_web_interface	`1.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.