TrackR Bravo device allows unauthenticated pairing, which enables unauthenticated connected applications to write to various device attributes

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• thetrackr trackr bravo firmwarebefore 2.2.5
• thetrackr trackr bravo firmwarebefore 5.1.6

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (certcc). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• TrackR Bravo Mobile Application

  • 5.1.6, 2.2.5not affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2016-6538TrackR Bravo mobile application stores account passwords in cleartext
  35Monitor
• CVE-2016-6540TrackR Bravo is missing authentication for the cloud service and allows querying or sending of GPS data from unauthenticated users
  26Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

A function added for development or support ships to production without authentication. It often relies on the assumption that it is “only reachable from the internal network.”

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1// Added for the support team2app.post("/maintenance/reset", resetDevice);

1if (config.maintenanceEnabled) {2  app.post(3    "/maintenance/reset",4    requireSession, requireRole("admin"), resetDevice5  );6}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.