ASUS Router - Improper Authentication
ASUS · ZenWiFi XT8
The authentication flaw affects certain ASUS router models, with the ZenWiFi XT8 named as the product, and stems from improper authentication in the device's login handling. An unauthenticated remote attacker can bypass authentication and log in to the device, requiring only network reachability to the router and no credentials, user interaction, or specific configuration.
Certain ASUS router models have authentication bypass vulnerability, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to log in the device.
- Exploited
- Yes, in VulnCheck KEV
- Reports
- 0
- Tactics
- 0/15
Exploitation timelineDated milestones for a CVE: when it was disclosed, when exploit code became public, when exploitation was confirmed, and when threat reports named it.
First seen exploited 4 months after disclosure.
- Disclosedday 0
- First seen exploitedVulnCheck KEV evidence+4 mo
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No techniques linkedNo ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.
What security researchers reported
Not named in any threat report yetAlso mentioned in 2 community threat pulses (AlienVault OTX)
Weaker evidencePulses are indicator collections that anyone can publish. A mention is not confirmation of exploitation.