CVE-2021-45523
Published: 26 December 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-45523 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Netgear R7000 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.7 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 41.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-32289
Vulnerability details
NETGEAR R7000 devices before 1.0.9.42 are affected by a buffer overflow by an authenticated user.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.