CVE-2021-45676
Published: 26 December 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-45676 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Netgear Rax200 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (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-2021-32442
Vulnerability details
Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by stored XSS. This affects RAX200 before 1.0.5.126, RAX20 before 1.0.2.82, RAX80 before 1.0.5.126, RAX15 before 1.0.2.82, and RAX75 before 1.0.5.126.
- 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.