Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-38132

High

Published: 24 August 2022

Published
24 August 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0077 73.9th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-38132 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Linksys Mr8300 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.2 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 26.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Command injection vulnerability in Linksys MR8300 router while Registration to DDNS Service. By specifying username and password, an attacker connected to the router's web interface can execute arbitrary OS commands. The username and password fields are not sanitized correctly and…

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are used as URL construction arguments, allowing URL redirection to an arbitrary server, downloading an arbitrary script file, and eventually executing the file in the device. This issue affects: Linksys MR8300 Router 1.0.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

linksys
mr8300 firmware
1.0

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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

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