CVE-2025-8679 - ExtremeGuest Essentials Captive Portal Unauthenticated Brute Force

CVE-2025-8679 - ExtremeGuest Essentials Captive Portal Unauthenticated Brute Force

https://cvefeed.io/rssfeed/latest.atom / Wed, 10/01/2025 - 20:42
CVE ID : CVE-2025-8679
Published : Oct. 1, 2025, 5:19 p.m. | 26 minutes ago
Description : In ExtremeGuest Essentials before 25.5.0, captive-portal may permit unauthorized access via manual brute-force procedure. Under certain ExtremeGuest Essentials captive-portal SSID configurations, repeated manual login attempts may allow an unauthenticated device to be marked as authenticated and obtain network access. Client360 logs may display the client MAC as the username despite no MAC-authentication being enabled.
Severity: 7.6 | HIGH
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