CVE-2021-45671
Published: 26 December 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-45671 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Netgear Rax200 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 44.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-32437
Vulnerability details
Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by stored XSS. This affects CBR40 before 2.5.0.10, EAX80 before 1.0.1.62, EX7500 before 1.0.0.72, R7900 before 1.0.4.38, R8000 before 1.0.4.68, RAX200 before 1.0.4.120, RBS40V before 2.6.1.4, RBW30 before 2.6.1.4, MR60 before 1.0.6.110, RAX20 before 1.0.2.82,…
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RAX45 before 1.0.2.72, RAX80 before 1.0.4.120, MS60 before 1.0.6.110, RAX15 before 1.0.2.82, RAX50 before 1.0.2.72, RAX75 before 1.0.4.120, RBR750 before 3.2.16.6, RBR850 before 3.2.16.6, RBS750 before 3.2.16.6, RBS850 before 3.2.16.6, RBK752 before 3.2.16.6, and RBK852 before 3.2.16.6.
- 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.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.