CVE-2012-4716
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedN-Tron 702-W Industrial Wireless Access Point devices use the same (1) SSH and (2) HTTPS private keys across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging knowledge of a key.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe N-Tron 702-W Industrial Wireless Access Point ships with hardcoded, identical SSH and HTTPS private keys across all devices. An attacker who obtains these shared keys (e.g., through device compromise, vendor leak, or reverse engineering) can decrypt intercepted traffic or authenticate to any affected device without additional credential cracking.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE dataall versionsCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- M
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- Complete
- Integrity
- Complete
- Availability
- None
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify the device modelLog into the device web interface or check the device label/physical markings to confirm the model is N-Tron 702-W Industrial Wireless Access PointAffected if The device is an N-Tron 702-W
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Check if SSH service is enabledAccess the device configuration via web interface or console and verify whether the SSH service is turned on in the network services settingsAffected if SSH is enabled and the device is an N-Tron 702-W (all versions have the hardcoded SSH key issue)
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Check if HTTPS service is enabledAccess the device configuration via web interface or console and verify whether the HTTPS web management interface is turned on in the network services settingsAffected if HTTPS is enabled and the device is an N-Tron 702-W (all versions have the hardcoded HTTPS key issue)
If the device is an N-Tron 702-W and either SSH or HTTPS is enabled, the environment is affected by this hardcoded key vulnerability regardless of firmware version.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataGenerate and deploy unique SSH host keys and HTTPS certificates per device; if firmware updates are unavailable, isolate devices on restricted network segments to limit exposure to attackers with key knowledge.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2012-4716 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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