CVE-2022-27646

State
Published
Severity
8.0 High
Published
Mar 29, 2023
Updated
Feb 18, 2025
Reserved
Mar 22, 2022

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Description

This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of NETGEAR R6700v3 1.0.4.120_10.0.91 routers. Although authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability, the existing authentication mechanism can be bypassed. The specific flaw exists within the circled daemon. A crafted circleinfo.txt file can trigger an overflow of a fixed-length stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-15879.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

ProductVersions
R6700v3NETGEAR
  • 1.0.4.120_10.0.91Affected

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