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CVE-2023-40478

MEDIUM
6.8
CVSS v3
NVD

Description

NETGEAR RAX30 Telnet CLI passwd Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of NETGEAR RAX30 routers. Although authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability, the existing authentication mechanism can be bypassed. The specific flaw exists within the telnet CLI service, which listens on TCP port 23. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-20009.

CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowCWE-787Out-of-bounds Write

How to fix

Remediation Available
rax30 firmwareNVD
Affected:< 1.0.10.94Fixed in:1.0.10.94CVE-2023-40478derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorAdjacent
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredHigh
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.72%probability of exploitation in 30 days
50thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 50% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1
Third-Party Advisory1

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-01-03.