{"id":"CVE-2018-21137","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-21137","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T22:10:04.557Z","title":"Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a hardcoded password.","description":"Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a hardcoded password. This affects D3600 before 1.0.0.76 and D6000 before 1.0.0.76.","published":"2020-04-23T21:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:54:13.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-798"],"affected":["netgear/d3600 firmware","netgear/d6000 firmware"],"epss":{"score":0.01443,"percentile":0.7311,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.44%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://kb.netgear.com/000060223/Security-Advisory-for-Hardcoded-Password-on-Some-Modem-Routers-PSV-2018-0099","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://kb.netgear.com/000060223/Security-Advisory-for-Hardcoded-Password-on-Some-Modem-Routers-PSV-2018-0099","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-21137","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}