CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2019-19823 — Totolink A3002Ru Firmware security vulnerability
A certain router administration interface (that includes Realtek APMIB 0.11f for Boa 0.94.14rc21) stores cleartext administrative passwords in flash memory and in a file. This affects TOTOLINK A3002RU through 2.0.0, A702R through 2.1.3, N301RT through 2.1.6, N302R through 3.4.0, N300RT through 3.4.0, N200RE through 4.0.0, N150RT through 3.4.0, and N100RE through 3.4.0; Rutek RTK 11N AP through 2019-12-12; Sapido GR297n through 2019-12-12; CIK TELECOM MESH ROUTER through 2019-12-12; KCTVJEJU Wireless AP through 2019-12-12; Fibergate FGN-R2 through 2019-12-12; Hi-Wifi MAX-C300N through 2019-12-12; HCN MAX-C300N through 2019-12-12; T-broad GN-866ac through 2019-12-12; Coship EMTA AP through 2019-12-12; and IO-Data WN-AC1167R through 2019-12-12.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.5 (3.1)
- Published
- 2020-01-27
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-522
Affected products
- totolink / a3002ru_firmware
- totolink / a702r_firmware
- totolink / n302r_firmware
- totolink / n300rt_firmware
- totolink / n200re_firmware
- totolink / n150rt_firmware
Matched remediation archetype
Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure
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Check exposure
- Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
- Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
- Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.
Remediate safely
- Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
- Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
- Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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