CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2023-35722
High (8.8) in netgear rax30 firmware. EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
NETGEAR RAX30 UPnP Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of NETGEAR RAX30 routers. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
The specific flaw exists within the handling of UPnP port mapping requests. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied string before using it to execute a system call. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-20429.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 69% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-78
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- netgear:rax30_firmware
References
- https://kb.netgear.com/000065699/Security-Advisory-for-Pre-Authentication-Command-Injection-on-the-RAX30-PSV-2023-0046
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-894/
- https://kb.netgear.com/000065699/Security-Advisory-for-Pre-Authentication-Command-Injection-on-the-RAX30-PSV-2023-0046
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-894/