Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-45608

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 26 December 2021

Published
26 December 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0505 90.0th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-45608 is a medium-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Netgear D7800 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 10.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Certain D-Link, Edimax, NETGEAR, TP-Link, Tenda, and Western Digital devices are affected by an integer overflow by an unauthenticated attacker. Remote code execution from the WAN interface (TCP port 20005) cannot be ruled out; however, exploitability was judged to be…

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of "rather significant complexity" but not "impossible." The overflow is in SoftwareBus_dispatchNormalEPMsgOut in the KCodes NetUSB kernel module. Affected NETGEAR devices are D7800 before 1.0.1.68, R6400v2 before 1.0.4.122, and R6700v3 before 1.0.4.122.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

netgear
d7800 firmware
≤ 1.0.1.68
netgear
r6400v2 firmware
≤ 1.0.4.122
netgear
r6700v3 firmware
≤ 1.0.4.122

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References