Coverage › CVE-2017-5521
CVE-2017-5521 Unmapped
NETGEAR Multiple Devices Exposure of Sensitive Information Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- NETGEAR — Multiple Devices
- Description (CISA)
- Multiple NETGEAR devices are prone to admin password disclosure via simple crafted requests to the web management server.
- Added to KEV
- 2022-09-08
- Due date
- 2022-09-29
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions. If the affected device has since entered end-of-life, it should be disconnected if still in use.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-200
- CISA notes
- https://kb.netgear.com/30632/Web-GUI-Password-Recovery-and-Exposure-Security-Vulnerability
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5521 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2017-5521. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-200) — here is why — and does not guess.
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