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CVE-2026-120283

9.3 critical

Critical (9.3).

A vulnerability was identified in Linksys E8450 1.2.00.360516. Affected is the function strcpy of the file /www/cgi-bin/portal.cgi. Such manipulation of the argument hidden_timezone leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack can be executed remotely. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

9.3 critical
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:P

CVSS 3.1

10.0 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWEs
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow
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Modified
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