Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2025-22906 is a critical-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability in Edimax Re11S 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 19% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
RE11S v1.11 contains a command injection vulnerability in the handling of the L2TPUserName parameter at the /goform/setWAN endpoint. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2025-22906 with a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8 and is classified under CWE-94, indicating improper control over code generation that allows arbitrary command execution.
An unauthenticated attacker with network access can supply a malicious L2TPUserName value to the affected endpoint and execute operating-system commands on the device. Successful exploitation grants full control over confidentiality, integrity, and availability without requiring user interaction or credentials.
Public references include a proof-of-concept repository demonstrating the injection and links to the vendor site and product page, though no official advisory or patch information is provided in the available sources. The EPSS score reached a peak of 0.0404 after disclosure before settling at the current value of 0.0293, indicating a modest but noticeable increase in exploitation interest.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3043
Vulnerability Data
RE11S v1.11 was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability via the L2TPUserName parameter at /goform/setWAN.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation finds code paths that accept and execute externally influenced strings.
Input validation directly stops untrusted data from being used to construct executable code without neutralization.
Least privilege limits the damage an injected code fragment can perform once executed.
Requiring documented secure development standards and tools enforces use of safe code-generation APIs and escaping.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
PR.PS-06's SDLC practices directly target injection flaws via secure coding and testing (mostly), yet as a single broad outcome it leaves many code-generation specifics unaddressed (partial).
PR.DS-10 protects runtime data confidentiality/integrity but has no bearing on neutralizing externally influenced input during code generation, so neither direction shows any preventive effect.
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.
Banning unapproved code samples and unauthenticated web services, combined with secure-coding standards and SAST, prevents the dynamic generation or inclusion of attacker-supplied code.
Controls that restrict unauthorized or malicious code from being introduced via external networks or removable media limit opportunities for an attacker to inject and execute arbitrary code.