Vulnerabilities tagged "embedded"

Authentication is Optional for some Netgear Smart Switches (Demon's Cries)

What if authentication was optional? That seems to be the case here where the Netgear Switch Discovery Protocol, a UDP based protocol where each datagram is a header following by a Type Length Value (TLV) chain.The expectation is that all of the "get" commands can be used without authentication but that "set" commands should send the password authentication entry (Type 10) as the first part of the TLV chain...
 

D-Link Rate-Liminting Bypass

D-Link attempted to provide some protection against brute-force by delaying the response for three seconds on a bad login.The problem was that the delay only happened on a bad login meaning, so there was a clear timing difference between a good and bad login attempt...