Edimax GS-5008PL up to 1.00.54 excessive reliance on global variables

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Edimax GS-5008PL up to 1.00.54. This affects an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to excessive reliance on global variables. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-32841. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Edimax GS-5008PL up to 1.00.54. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a excessive reliance on global variables vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-1108. The code is structured in a way that relies too much on using or setting global variables throughout various points in the code, instead of preserving the associated information in a narrower, more local context. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Edimax GS-5008PL firmware versions 1.00.54 and prior contain an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to access the management interface. Attackers can exploit the global authentication flag mechanism to gain administrative access without credentials after any user authenticates, enabling unauthorized password changes, firmware uploads, and configuration modifications.

The weakness was presented by Kazuma Matsumoto. The advisory is available at edimax.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-32841 since 03/16/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/27/2026).

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

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Vendor

• Edimax

Name

• GS-5008PL

Version

• 1.00.0
• 1.00.1
• 1.00.2
• 1.00.3
• 1.00.4
• 1.00.5
• 1.00.6
• 1.00.7
• 1.00.8
• 1.00.9
• 1.00.10
• 1.00.11
• 1.00.12
• 1.00.13
• 1.00.14
• 1.00.15
• 1.00.16
• 1.00.17
• 1.00.18
• 1.00.19
• 1.00.20
• 1.00.21
• 1.00.22
• 1.00.23
• 1.00.24
• 1.00.25
• 1.00.26
• 1.00.27
• 1.00.28
• 1.00.29
• 1.00.30
• 1.00.31
• 1.00.32
• 1.00.33
• 1.00.34
• 1.00.35
• 1.00.36
• 1.00.37
• 1.00.38
• 1.00.39
• 1.00.40
• 1.00.41
• 1.00.42
• 1.00.43
• 1.00.44
• 1.00.45
• 1.00.46
• 1.00.47
• 1.00.48
• 1.00.49
• 1.00.50
• 1.00.51
• 1.00.52
• 1.00.53
• 1.00.54

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• end of life

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