CVE-2015-8289: NETGEAR d3600 Firmware

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The password-recovery feature on NETGEAR D3600 devices with firmware 1.0.0.49 and D6000 devices with firmware 1.0.0.49 and earlier allows remote attackers to discover the cleartext administrator password by reading the cgi-bin/passrec.asp HTML source code.

Affected products

• NETGEAR d3600 Firmware: version 1.0.0.49 only
• NETGEAR d6000 Firmware: up to and including 1.0.0.49

Published 2016-06-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.