{"cve":"CVE-2025-12946","nvd":{"published":"2025-12-09T17:15:48.820","modified":"2026-10-07T11:10:00.153","status":"Analyzed","description":"A vulnerability in the speedtest feature of affected NETGEAR Nighthawk routers, caused by improper input validation, can allow attackers on the router's WAN side, using attacker-in-the-middle techniques (MiTM) to manipulate DNS responses and execute commands when speedtests are run. \n\n\n\nThis issue affects RS700: through 1.0.7.82; RAX54Sv2 : before V1.1.6.36; RAX41v2: before V1.1.6.36; RAX50: before V1.2.14.114; RAXE500: before V1.2.14.114; RAX41: before V1.0.17.142; RAX43: before V1.0.17.142; RAX35v2: before V1.0.17.142; RAXE450: before V1.2.14.114; RAX43v2: before V1.1.6.36; RAX42: before V1.0.17.142; RAX45: before V1.0.17.142; RAX50v2: before V1.1.6.36; MR90: before V1.0.2.46; MS90: before V1.0.2.46; RAX42v2: before V1.1.6.36; RAX49S: before V1.1.6.36.","cvss_v4":{"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/S:N/AU:N/R:A/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber","score":4.4},"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.5},"cwes":["CWE-20"],"references":["https://kb.netgear.com/000070416/December-2025-NETGEAR-Security-Advisory","https://www.netgear.com/support/product/RAX50","https://www.netgear.com/support/product/mr90","https://www.netgear.com/support/product/ms90","https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax35v2"],"products":["netgear:mr90_firmware","netgear:ms90_firmware","netgear:rax35v2_firmware","netgear:rax41_firmware","netgear:rax41v2_firmware","netgear:rax42_firmware","netgear:rax42v2_firmware","netgear:rax43_firmware","netgear:rax43v2_firmware","netgear:rax45_firmware","netgear:rax45v2_firmware","netgear:rax49s_firmware","netgear:rax50_firmware","netgear:rax50v2_firmware","netgear:rax54sv2_firmware","netgear:raxe450_firmware","netgear:raxe500_firmware","netgear:rs700_firmware"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:16:40.427100871+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-12946","score":0.00293,"percentile":0.21674,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}