Netgear RAX30 UPnP command injection

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A vulnerability was found in Netgear RAX30. It has been classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component UPnP Handler. The manipulation leads to command injection. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-35722. The attack requires being on the local network. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Netgear RAX30 (Wireless LAN Software) (unknown version). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component UPnP Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

NETGEAR RAX30 UPnP Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of NETGEAR RAX30 routers. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of UPnP port mapping requests. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied string before using it to execute a system call. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-20429.

The weakness was released 07/01/2023. It is possible to read the advisory at zerodayinitiative.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-35722 since 06/15/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/03/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at kb.netgear.com.

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• Wireless LAN Software

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• Netgear

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• RAX30

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.netgear.com/

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