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FKIE_CVE-2021-47726

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-31 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:18

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

NuCom 11N Wireless Router 5.07.90 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows non-privileged users to access administrative credentials through the configuration backup endpoint. Attackers can send a crafted HTTP GET request to the backup configuration page with a specific cookie to retrieve and decode the admin password in Base64 format.

References

	URL	Tags
	disclosure@vulncheck.com	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49634
	disclosure@vulncheck.com	https://www.nucom.es
	disclosure@vulncheck.com	https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nucom-n-wireless-router-privilege-escalation-via-configuration-backup
	disclosure@vulncheck.com	https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2021-5629.php

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2021-47726 (GCVE-0-2021-47726)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-31 18:39 – Updated: 2026-01-02 20:08

Title

NuCom 11N Wireless Router 5.07.90 Privilege Escalation via Configuration Backup

Summary

Severity

8.7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-01-02 20:07 UTC

CWE

CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Assigner

VulnCheck mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49634	exploit
https://www.nucom.es	product
https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL…	third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nucom-n-wire…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Nucom	NuCom 11N Wireless Router	Affected: 5.07.90

Date Public

2021-03-01 00:00

Credits

LiquidWorm as Gjoko Krstic of Zero Science Lab

Show details on NVD website

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