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CVE-2021-21729 — Some ZTE products have CSRF vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.5

Some ZTE products have CSRF vulnerability. Because some pages lack CSRF random value verification, attackers could perform illegal authorization operations by constructing messages.This affects: ZXHN H168N V3.5.0_EG1T5_TE, V2.5.5, ZXHN H108N V2.5.5_BTMT1

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2021-04-13
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-330, CWE-352

Affected products

  • zte / zxhn_h168n_firmware / 3.5.0_eg1t5_te
  • zte / zxhn_h108n_firmware / 2.5.5_btmt1

Matched remediation archetype

Cryptography, certificate, signature, and channel validation

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Check exposure

  • Inventory affected algorithms, key uses, trust stores, certificate validation settings, random sources, and plaintext channels across clients and services.
  • Determine which secrets, identities, signatures, or data protections depend on the affected primitive or validation path.
  • Check debug, compatibility, fallback, and hostname or audience override settings in build and runtime configuration.

Remediate safely

  • Use a maintained platform cryptographic API with approved algorithms, modes, parameters, randomness, and full peer identity validation.
  • Remove insecure fallback and validation bypasses; separate keys by purpose and load them from managed secret storage.
  • Plan rotation or reissuance for affected keys, certificates, tokens, hashes, or ciphertext and document compatibility sequencing.

Authoritative sources

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