CVE-2022-36604 — An access control issue in Canaan Avalon ASIC Miner 2020

An access control issue in Canaan Avalon ASIC Miner 2020.3.30 and below allows unauthenticated attackers to arbitrarily change user passwords via a crafted POST request.

01What is this vulnerability?

An access control issue in Canaan Avalon ASIC Miner 2020.3.30 and below allows unauthenticated attackers to arbitrarily change user passwords via a crafted POST request.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-09-01T19:36:16.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T10:07:34.476Z

09References

• jamesachambers.com — https://jamesachambers.com/cryptocurrency-asic-miners-security-and-hacking-audit…