Moxa AWK-3131A Hard-coded Administrator Credentials Vulnerability(CVE-2016-8717)

### Summary An exploitable Use of Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability exists in the Moxa AWK-3131A Wireless Access Point running firmware 1.1. The device operating system contains an undocumented, privileged (root) account with hard-coded credentials, giving attackers full control of affected devices. ### Tested Versions Moxa AWK-3131A Series Industrial IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless AP/bridge/client 1.1 ### Product URLs http://www.moxa.com/product/AWK-3131A.htm ### CVSSv3 Score 10.0 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H ### Details An exploitable Use of Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability exists in the Moxa AWK-3131A Series Industrial IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless AP/bridge/client. The device operating system contains an undocumented, privileged (root) account with hard-coded credentials, giving attackers full control of affected devices. ``` user: 94jo3dkru4 password: moxaiwroot ``` The device lacks the functionality for legitimate administrators to modify or remove the backdoor account. ### Mitigation Disable all remotely-accessible services, such as SSH and Telnet. ### Timeline * 2016-11-14 - Vendor Disclosure * 2017-04-21 - Public Release ### CREDIT * Discovered by Patrick DeSantis of Cisco Talos.