Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-47208

High

Published: 16 December 2022

Published
16 December 2022
Modified
17 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0114 78.8th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-47208 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Netgear Nighthawk Ax1800 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 21.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The “puhttpsniff” service, which runs by default, is susceptible to command injection due to improperly sanitized user input. An unauthenticated attacker on the same network segment as the router can execute arbitrary commands on the device without authentication.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

netgear
nighthawk ax1800 firmware
≤ 1.0.9.90
netgear
nighthawk ax2400 firmware
≤ 1.0.9.90
netgear
nighthawk ax3000 firmware
≤ 1.0.9.90
netgear
nighthawk ax5400 firmware
≤ 1.0.9.90
netgear
nighthawk ax6000 firmware
≤ 1.0.9.90
netgear
nighthawk ax11000 firmware
≤ 1.0.9.90

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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