Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-51812

CriticalPublic PoCRCE

Published: 04 January 2024

Published
04 January 2024
Modified
03 June 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0262 86.0th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-51812 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Tenda Ax3 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059); ranked in the top 14.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Tenda AX3 v16.03.12.11 was discovered to contain a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability via the list parameter at /goform/SetNetControlList.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-77

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution
Adversaries may abuse command and script interpreters to execute commands, scripts, or binaries.
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T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.
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Why these techniques?

The command injection vulnerability in the Tenda AX3 router's web interface (/goform/SetNetControlList) enables remote code execution via arbitrary Unix shell commands without proper input validation, facilitating exploitation of public-facing applications, remote services, and command interpreter abuse.

Affected Assets

tenda
ax3 firmware
16.03.12.11

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References