CVE-2024-57235
Published: 05 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-57235 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Netgear Rax50 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 7.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Deeper analysis
NETGEAR RAX5 (AX1600 WiFi Router) firmware version V1.0.2.26 contains a command injection vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-57235. The flaw, assigned CWE-77, resides in the vif_enable function and is triggered through the iface parameter, yielding a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8.
An unauthenticated attacker with network access can supply a crafted iface value to execute arbitrary operating-system commands on the device. Successful exploitation grants full control over confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the router without requiring user interaction.
The sole public reference is a technical disclosure hosted on GitHub that details the injection point; no vendor advisory or patch information is provided in the available data. The associated EPSS score remains flat at 0.0811 with no observed rise after publication.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-13451
Vulnerability details
NETGEAR RAX5 (AX1600 WiFi Router) V1.0.2.26 was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability via the iface parameter in the vif_enable function.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.