CVE-2025-12943

Improper certificate validation in firmware update logic in NETGEAR RAX30 and RAXE300

State: Published
Severity: 5.2 Medium
Published: Nov 11, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Nov 10, 2025

Description

Improper certificate validation in firmware update logic in NETGEAR RAX30 (Nighthawk AX5 5-Stream AX2400 WiFi 6 Router) and RAXE300 (Nighthawk AXE7800 Tri-Band WiFi 6E Router) allows attackers with the ability to intercept and tamper traffic destined to the device to execute arbitrary commands on the device.

Devices with automatic updates enabled may already have this patch applied. If not, please check the firmware version and update to the latest.

Fixed in:

RAX30 firmware 1.0.14.108 or later.

RAXE300 firmware 1.0.9.82 or later

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.2 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:L/U:Amber	NETGEAR

Weaknesses

CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
RAX30NETGEAR	before 1.0.10.95Affected
RAXE300NETGEAR	before 1.0.9.82Affected

References

https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax30productpatch
https://www.netgear.com/support/product/raxe300productpatch
https://kb.netgear.com/000070355/NETGEAR-Security-Advisories-November-2025vendor-advisory

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