Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-36109

Critical

Published: 01 February 2021

Published
01 February 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.1294 94.2th percentile
Risk Priority 27 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-36109 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Asus Rt-Ax86U Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 5.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

ASUS RT-AX86U router firmware below version under 9.0.0.4_386 has a buffer overflow in the blocking_request.cgi function of the httpd module that can cause code execution when an attacker constructs malicious data.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

asus
rt-ax86u firmware
≤ 9.0.0.4_386

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

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