CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-27274
Critical (9.8) in netgear prosafe network management system. EPSS 8.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of NETGEAR ProSAFE Network Management System 1.6.0.26. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the MFileUploadController class. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied path prior to using it in file operations. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of SYSTEM. Was ZDI-CAN-12124.
Severity
- EPSS
- 8.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-434
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- netgear:prosafe_network_management_system
References
- https://kb.netgear.com/000062688/Security-Advisory-for-Pre-Authentication-Command-Injection-on-NMS300-PSV-2020-0560
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-357/
- https://kb.netgear.com/000062688/Security-Advisory-for-Pre-Authentication-Command-Injection-on-NMS300-PSV-2020-0560
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-357/