CVE-2019-16399
moderate-risk
Published 2019-09-18
Western Digital WD My Book World through II 1.02.12 suffers from Broken Authentication, which allows an attacker to access the /admin/ directory without credentials. An attacker can easily enable SSH from /admin/system_advanced.php?lang=en and login with the default root password welc0me.
Do I need to act?
!
10.9% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 89% of all CVEs
-
Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
!
1 public exploit available
?
Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
9
CVSS 9.8/10
Critical
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (1)
Affected Vendors
References (4)
48
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
32/34 · Critical
Exploitability
11/34 · Low
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal