CVE-2021-45528
Published: 26 December 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-45528 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Netgear R6300V2 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 38.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-32294
Vulnerability details
Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a buffer overflow by an authenticated user. This affects R6300v2 before 1.0.4.52, R6400 before 1.0.1.52, R6900 before 1.0.2.8, R7000 before 1.0.9.88, R7900 before 1.0.3.18, R8000 before 1.0.4.46, R7900P before 1.4.1.50, R8000P before 1.4.1.50, RAX75…
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before 1.0.3.88, RAX80 before 1.0.3.88, and WNR3500Lv2 before 1.2.0.62.
- 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.