Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by password exposure. This affects AC1450 before 2017-01-06, C6300 before 2017-01-06, D500 before 2017-01-06, D1500 before 2017-01-06, D3600 before 2017-01-06, D6000 before 2017-01-06, D6100 before 2017-01-06, D6200 before 2017-01-06, D6200B before 2017-01-06, D6300B before 2017-01-06, D6300 before 2017-01-06, DGN1000v3 before 2017-01-06, DGN2200v1 before 2017-01-06, DGN2200v3 before 2017-01-06, DGN2200V4 before 2017-01-06, DGN2200Bv3 before 2017-01-06, DGN2200Bv4 before 2017-01-06, DGND3700v1 before 2017-01-06, DGND3700v2 before 2017-01-06, DGND3700Bv2 before 2017-01-06, JNR1010v1 before 2017-01-06, JNR1010v2 before 2017-01-06, JNR3300 before 2017-01-06, JR6100 before 2017-01-06, JR6150 before 2017-01-06, JWNR2000v5 before 2017-01-06, R2000 before 2017-01-06, R6050 before 2017-01-06, R6100 before 2017-01-06, R6200 before 2017-01-06, R6200v2 before 2017-01-06, R6220 before 2017-01-06, R6250 before 2017-01-06, R6300 before 2017-01-06, R6300v2 before…

An issue was discovered on NETGEAR R8500, R8300, R7000, R6400, R7300, R7100LG, R6300v2, WNDR3400v3, WNR3500Lv2, R6250, R6700, R6900, and R8000 devices. They are prone to password disclosure via simple crafted requests to the web management server. The bug is exploitable remotely if the remote management option is set, and can also be exploited given access to the router over LAN or WLAN. When trying to access the web panel, a user is asked to authenticate; if the authentication is canceled and password recovery is not enabled, the user is redirected to a page that exposes a password recovery token. If a user supplies the correct token to the page /passwordrecovered.cgi?id=TOKEN (and password recovery is not enabled), they will receive the admin password for the router. If password recovery is set the exploit will fail, as it will ask the user for the recovery questions that were previously set when enabling that feature. This is persistent (even after disabling the recovery option, th…