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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-16399

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.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 7.08%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (7.08%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

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.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
7.08% probability · 94th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-798
Affected
westerndigital/wd my book firmware
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.