CVE-2025-12946
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. This 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 4.0
- 4.4
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 - CVSS 3.1
- 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 21% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- 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