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A vulnerability was found in ZyXEL Wireless N300 NetUSB 1.00(bfq.6)c0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function detectWeather of the file management.c. The manipulation leads to os command injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2014-0356. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in ZyXEL Wireless N300 NetUSB 1.00(bfq.6)c0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function detectWeather of the file management.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The ZyXEL Wireless N300 NetUSB NBG-419N router with firmware 1.00(BFQ.6)C0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in input to the (1) detectWeather, (2) set_language, (3) SystemCommand, or (4) NTPSyncWithHost function in management.c, or a (5) SET COUNTRY, (6) SET WLAN SSID, (7) SET WLAN CHANNEL, (8) SET WLAN STATUS, or (9) SET WLAN COUNTRY udps command.

The weakness was presented 04/15/2014 as VU#939260 as not defined vulnerability note (CERT.org). The advisory is shared at kb.cert.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-0356 since 12/05/2013. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/19/2024). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (92619) and SecurityFocus (BID 66794†). See VDB-13010, VDB-13011 and VDB-13012 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• ZyXEL

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• Wireless N300 NetUSB

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• 1.00(bfq.6)c0

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.zyxel.com/

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