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critical 9.8

CVE-2019-16399 json

Western Digital WD My Book World through II 1.02.12 suffers from Broken Authentication, which allows an attacker to access the /admin/ dire…

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-7146

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.1%
EPSS 7.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

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Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-47399)

Exploit prediction

7.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-47399 Western Digital My Book World II NAS 1.02.12 - Authentication Bypass / Command Execution webapps, 2019-09-19
  • gist.github.com https://gist.github.com/pak0s/22ad6bae26198ebcd137b61adb6fcfe6 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

Sources

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