CVE-2021-45638
Published: 26 December 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-45638 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Netgear D6220 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.6 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 41.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-32404
Vulnerability details
Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a stack-based buffer overflow by an unauthenticated attacker. This affects D6220 before 1.0.0.68, D6400 before 1.0.0.102, D7000v2 before 1.0.0.74, D8500 before 1.0.3.60, DC112A before 1.0.0.56, R6300v2 before 1.0.4.50, R6400 before 1.0.1.68, R7000 before 1.0.11.116,…
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R7100LG before 1.0.0.70, RBS40V before 2.6.2.8, RBW30 before 2.6.2.2, RS400 before 1.5.1.80, R7000P before 1.3.2.132, and R6900P before 1.3.2.132.
- 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.
Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.