CVE-2014-2969: NETGEAR GS108PE

High severity, CVSS 8.3. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NETGEAR GS108PE Prosafe Plus switches with firmware 1.2.0.5 have a hardcoded password of debugpassword for the ntgruser account, which allows remote attackers to upload firmware or read or modify memory contents, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a request to (1) produce_burn.cgi, (2) register_debug.cgi, or (3) bootcode_update.cgi.

Affected products

• NETGEAR GS108PE
• NETGEAR GS108PE Firmware: version 1.2.0.5 only

Published 2014-07-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.