Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-35518

High

Published: 14 October 2024

Published
14 October 2024
Modified
19 March 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0027 50.6th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-35518 is a high-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Netgear Ex6120 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.4 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 49.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Netgear EX6120 v1.0.0.68 is vulnerable to Command Injection in genie_fix2.cgi via the wan_dns1_pri parameter.

CWE(s)
CWE-77

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

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.
attack.mitre.org →
T1059.004 Unix Shell Execution
Adversaries may abuse Unix shell commands and scripts for execution.
attack.mitre.org →
Why these techniques?

Command injection in the genie_fix2.cgi web script via wan_dns1_pri parameter enables exploitation of a public-facing application (T1190) and arbitrary Unix shell command execution on the Linux-based router (T1059.004).

Affected Assets

netgear
ex6120 firmware
≤ 1.0.0.68

Mitigating Controls

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

References