CVE-2015-5995

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Published 2015-12-31 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Mediabridge Medialink MWN-WAPR300N devices with firmware 5.07.50 and Tenda N3 Wireless N150 devices allow remote attackers to obtain administrative access via a certain admin substring in an HTTP Cookie header.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-41402 webapps hardware verified text · 1 KB

Mandeep Jadon · 2015-09-03

Tenda N3 Wireless N150 Router - Authentication Bypass

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

# Exploit Title: Complete Authentication Bypass In Tenda N3 Wireless N150 Routers
# Date: 03-09-2015
# Software Link: http://tendacn.com/en/product/N150.html
# Exploit Author: Mandeep Jadon
# Contact: http://twitter.com/1337tr0lls
# Website: http://twitter.com/1337tr0lls
# CVE: CVE-2015-5995
# Category: Device


Description:

The router (AP) is using very poor authentication mechanism . It uses a
static cookie to verify the incoming authentication. After careful
inspection it was found that the cookie used were same for any number of
authentication by the Admin .

Thus the cookie can be easily forged and the admin account could be
compromised without supplying the credentials .

Proof Of Concept:

Inject the following cookie in the browser with the given values :

admin:language : en

Reload the page . You are logged into the admin account .

Video POC : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvF-7KK0g6E

Mitigation :

Use: a secure authentication mechanism consisting of random , complex
cookies .

References :
https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-5995
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/630872

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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