CAPEC-212MetaStable
Functionality Misuse
An adversary leverages a legitimate capability of an application in such a way as to achieve a negative technical impact. The system functionality is not altered or modified but used in a way that was not intended. This is often accomplished through the overuse of a specific functionality or by leveraging functionality with design flaws that enables the adversary to gain access to unauthorized, sensitive data.
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CWE-1242
The device includes chicken bits or undocumented features that can create entry points for unauthorized actors.
CWE-1246
The product does not implement or incorrectly implements wear leveling operations in limited-write non-volatile memories.
CWE-1281
Specific combinations of processor instructions lead to undesirable behavior such as locking the processor until a hard reset performed.
Related vulnerabilities
CVE-2025-12176Undocumented administrative accounts were getting created to facilitate access for applications running on board.This issue affects BLU-IC2: through 1.19.5; BLU-IC4: through 1.19.5.
CVE-2025-55050CWE-1242: Inclusion of Undocumented Features
CVE-2017-20204DBLTek GoIP devices (models GoIP 1, 4, 8, 16, and 32) contain an undocumented vendor backdoor in the Telnet administrative interface that allows remote authentication as an undocumented user via a proprietary challenge–response scheme which is fundamentally flawed. Because the challenge response can be computed from the challenge itself, a remote attacker can authenticate without knowledge of a secret and obtain a root shell on the device. This can lead to persistent remote code execution, full device compromise, and arbitrary control of the device and any managed services. The firmware used within these devices was updated in December 2016 to make this vulnerability more complex to exploit. However, it is unknown if DBLTek has taken steps to fully mitigate.
CVE-2023-3634In products of the MSE6 product-family by Festo a remote authenticated, low privileged attacker could use functions of undocumented test mode which could lead to a complete loss of confidentiality, integrity and availability.
CVE-2023-23583Sequence of processor instructions leads to unexpected behavior for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.
CVE-2026-24714Some end of service NETGEAR products provide "TelnetEnable" functionality, which allows a magic packet to activate telnet service on the box.
CVE-2025-41756A low-privileged remote attacker can exploit the ubr-editfile method in wwwubr.cgi, an undocumented and unused API endpoint to write arbitrary files on the system.
CVE-2025-56301An issue was discovered in Chipsalliance Rocket-Chip commit f517abbf41abb65cea37421d3559f9739efd00a9 (2025-01-29) allowing attackers to corrupt exception handling and privilege state transitions via a flawed interaction between exception handling and MRET return mechanisms in the CSR logic when an exception is triggered during MRET execution. The Control and Status Register (CSR) logic has a flawed interaction between exception handling and exception return (MRET) mechanisms which can cause faulty trap behavior. When the MRET instruction is executed in machine mode without being in an exception state, an Instruction Access Fault may be triggered. This results in both the exception handling logic and the exception return logic activating simultaneously, leading to conflicting updates to the control and status registers.
CVE-2025-22450Inclusion of undocumented features issue exists in UD-LT2 firmware Ver.1.00.008_SE and earlier. A remote attacker may disable the LAN-side firewall function of the affected products, and open specific ports.
CVE-2024-52564Inclusion of undocumented features or chicken bits issue exists in UD-LT1 firmware Ver.2.1.8 and earlier and UD-LT1/EX firmware Ver.2.1.8 and earlier. A remote attacker may disable the firewall function of the affected products. As a result, an arbitrary OS command may be executed and/or configuration settings of the device may be altered.
CVE-2024-36432An arbitrary memory write vulnerability was discovered in Supermicro X11DPG-HGX2, X11PDG-QT, X11PDG-OT, and X11PDG-SN motherboards with BIOS firmware before 4.4.
CVE-2024-54457Inclusion of undocumented features or chicken bits issue exists in AE1021 firmware versions 2.0.10 and earlier and AE1021PE firmware versions 2.0.10 and earlier, which may allow a logged-in user to enable telnet service.
CVE-2025-52548E3 Site Supervisor Control (firmware version < 2.31F01) contains a hidden API call in the application services that enables SSH and Shellinabox, which exist but are disabled by default. An attacker with admin access to the application services can utilize this API to enable remote access to the underlying OS.
CVE-2025-41754A low-privileged remote attacker can exploit the ubr-editfile method in wwwubr.cgi, an undocumented and unused API endpoint to read arbitrary files on the system.
CVE-2024-7011Sharp NEC Projectors (NP-CB4500UL, NP-CB4500WL, NP-CB4700UL, NP-P525UL, NP-P525UL+, NP-P525ULG, NP-P525ULJL, NP-P525WL, NP-P525WL+, NP-P525WLG, NP-P525WLJL, NP-CG6500UL, NP-CG6500WL, NP-CG6700UL, NP-P605UL, NP-P605UL+, NP-P605ULG, NP-P605ULJL, NP-CA4120X, NP-CA4160W, NP-CA4160X, NP-CA4200U, NP-CA4200W, NP-CA4202W, NP-CA4260X, NP-CA4300X, NP-CA4355X, NP-CD2100U, NP-CD2120X, NP-CD2300X, NP-CR2100X, NP-CR2170W, NP-CR2170X, NP-CR2200U, NP-CR2200W, NP-CR2280X, NP-CR2310X, NP-CR2350X, NP-MC302XG, NP-MC332WG, NP-MC332WJL, NP-MC342XG, NP-MC372X, NP-MC372XG, NP-MC382W, NP-MC382WG, NP-MC422XG, NP-ME342UG, NP-ME372W, NP-ME372WG, NP-ME372WJL, NP-ME382U, NP-ME382UG, NP-ME382UJL, NP-ME402X, NP-ME402XG, NP-ME402XJL, NP-CB4500XL, NP-CG6400UL, NP-CG6400WL, NP-CG6500XL, NP-PE455UL, NP-PE455ULG, NP-PE455WL, NP-PE455WLG, NP-PE505XLG, NP-CB4600U, NP-CF6600U, NP-P474U, NP-P554U, NP-P554U+, NP-P554UG, NP-P554UJL, NP-CG6600UL, NP-P547UL, NP-P547ULG, NP-P547ULJL, NP-P607UL+, NP-P627UL, NP-P627UL+, NP-P627ULG, NP-P627ULJL, NP-PV710UL-B, NP-PV710UL-B1, NP-PV710UL-W, NP-PV710UL-W+, NP-PV710UL-W1, NP-PV730UL-BJL, NP-PV730UL-WJL, NP-PV800UL-B, NP-PV800UL-B+, NP-PV800UL-B1, NP-PV800UL-BJL, NP-PV800UL-W, NP-PV800UL-W+, NP-PV800UL-W1, NP-PV800UL-WJL, NP-CA4200X, NP-CA4265X, NP-CA4300U, NP-CA4300W, NP-CA4305X, NP-CA4400X, NP-CD2125X, NP-CD2200W, NP-CD2300U, NP-CD2310X, NP-CR2105X, NP-CR2200X, NP-CR2205W, NP-CR2300U, NP-CR2300W, NP-CR2315X, NP-CR2400X, NP-MC333XG, NP-MC363XG, NP-MC393WJL, NP-MC423W, NP-MC423WG, NP-MC453X, NP-MC453X, NP-MC453XG, NP-MC453XJL, NP-ME383WG, NP-ME403U, NP-ME403UG, NP-ME403UJL, NP-ME423W, NP-ME423WG, NP-ME423WJL, NP-ME453X, NP-ME453XG, NP-CB4400USL, NP-CB4400WSL, NP-CB4510UL, NP-CB4510WL, NP-CB4510XL, NP-CB4550USL, NP-CB6700UL, NP-CG6510UL, NP-PE456USL, NP-PE456USLG, NP-PE456USLJL, NP-PE456WSLG, NP-PE506UL, NP-PE506ULG, NP-PE506ULJL, NP-PE506WL, NP-PE506WLG, NP-PE506WLJL) allows an attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition via SNMP service.