Person

Kyle Lovett

person:kyle_lovett

Senior penetration tester who discovered and disclosed vulnerabilities in ASUS home routers.

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Direction Predicate Other entity Origin EP
outgoing MEMBER_OF Veracode Explicit 5
outgoing USES penetration testing Explicit 5
outgoing USES fuzzing Explicit 5
outgoing USES Shodan Explicit 5
outgoing USES partial disclosure Explicit 5
incoming DISCOVERED_BY default admin/admin credentials Derived 5
incoming DISCOVERED_BY anonymous FTP access Derived 5
incoming DISCOVERED_BY cleartext password exposure Derived 5

Claims

Kyle Lovett MEMBER_OF Veracode

Kyle Lovett says he is a Senior Penetration Tester with Veracode.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Kyle Lovett EP 5 Details

“I am a Senior Penetration Tester right now with Veracode.”

Kyle Lovett · offsets 1241–1298

Kyle Lovett USES penetration testing

Kyle used his penetration-testing skills while examining the router.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 5 Details

“Kyle used his penetration testing skills to see if he could find something else”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 4890–4965

Kyle Lovett USES fuzzing

Kyle says he began looking and fuzzing the router.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Kyle Lovett EP 5 Details

“I just started looking and fuzzing”

Kyle Lovett · offsets 4675–4709

Kyle Lovett USES Shodan

Kyle used Shodan to estimate how many vulnerable routers were exposed on the internet.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 5 Details

“Kyle used a website called Shodan to try to understand the size of this problem”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 8107–8186

default admin/admin credentials DISCOVERED_BY Kyle Lovett

Kyle found the default admin/admin credential issue during his testing.

Derived Confidence 95% · Kyle Lovett EP 5 Details

“then you had the bigger problem of the default passwords which was admin/admin”

Kyle Lovett · offsets 7692–7770

anonymous FTP access DISCOVERED_BY Kyle Lovett

Kyle found the anonymous FTP access problem while testing his router.

Derived Confidence 96% · Kyle Lovett EP 5 Details

“I realized that port 21 was open with anonymous access”

Kyle Lovett · offsets 3806–3860

cleartext password exposure DISCOVERED_BY Kyle Lovett

Kyle found the clear-text password exposure by browsing to the exposed file.

Derived Confidence 95% · Kyle Lovett EP 5 Details

“That only took me maybe twenty, twenty-five minutes to find”

Kyle Lovett · offsets 5478–5537

Kyle Lovett USES partial disclosure

Kyle used partial disclosure to pressure ASUS to address the vulnerability.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Kyle Lovett EP 5 Details

“I decided to go with the partial disclosure online”