CVE-2025-12946
HIGHDescription
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 v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 17% of all known CVEs.
References
- https://kb.netgear.com/000070416/December-2025-NETGEAR-Security-Advisory
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/RAX50
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/mr90
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/ms90
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax35v2
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax41
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax41v2
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax42
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax42v2
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax43
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax43v2
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax45
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax49s
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax50v2
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax54sv2
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/raxe450
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/raxe500
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rs700
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