CVE-2018-3954

State
Published
Severity
7.2 High
Published
Oct 17, 2018
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Jan 2, 2018

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Description

Devices in the Linksys ESeries line of routers (Linksys E1200 Firmware Version 2.0.09 and Linksys E2500 Firmware Version 3.0.04) are susceptible to OS command injection vulnerabilities due to improper filtering of data passed to and retrieved from NVRAMData entered into the 'Router Name' input field through the web portal is submitted to apply.cgi as the value to the 'machine_name' POST parameter. When the 'preinit' binary receives the SIGHUP signal it enters a code path that calls a function named 'set_host_domain_name' from its libshared.so shared object.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.07.2 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Htalos

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ESeries E1200Linksys
  • Firmware Version 2.0.09Affected
ESeries E2500Linksys
  • Firmware Version 3.0.04Affected

References

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