CVE-2023-41011
RCE in Chinamobile Intelligent Home Gateway Firmware hg6543c4
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2023-41011 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Chinamobile Intelligent Home Gateway Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 15% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2023-41011 is a command injection vulnerability, tracked under CWE-77, that affects the China Mobile Intelligent Home Gateway model HG6543C4. The flaw resides in the shortcut_telnet.cg component and permits unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary operating-system commands. It carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8, reflecting network attack vector, low attack complexity, and no required privileges or user interaction.
An attacker with network access to an exposed device can send crafted requests directly to shortcut_telnet.cg, resulting in full command execution on the gateway. Successful exploitation grants the attacker the ability to read, modify, or delete data and potentially take complete control of the affected device.
The two referenced GitHub wiki entries document the vulnerability and its reproduction steps but contain no official vendor advisory, patch information, or mitigation guidance. The associated EPSS score has remained flat at 0.1157 since disclosure, indicating no material increase in observed exploitation interest.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-45548
Vulnerability Data
Command Execution vulnerability in China Mobile Communications China Mobile Intelligent Home Gateway v.HG6543C4 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the shortcut_telnet.cg component.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
A.8.25 mandates secure SDLC practices including secure coding guidelines, security requirements, checkpoints, testing (scans/penetration), and developer training that reduce command injection defects, but leaves a minority slice (e.g. incomplete implementation of those practices, outsourced development without full assurance, or post-SDLC changes) where the weakness can still arise and be exploitable.
Application security requirements explicitly call for controls against injection flaws including command injection.
A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (e.g. distrust external input, secure session control, data validation/sanitization, least privilege) and design reviews that can stop command injection from being introduced, but this is only a minority slice of CWE-77 because the weakness can still arise in code that bypasses those principles, in non-reviewed components, or in runtime injection vectors the architecture review does not reach.
Secure coding standards require proper escaping and parameterization of commands, directly eliminating CWE-77.
Security testing in development catches command-injection vulnerabilities before release.
Hardening callouts derived
DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.
- No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-77, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.