CVE-2025-3665
Published: 16 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-3665 is a medium-severity Incorrect Privilege Assignment (CWE-266) vulnerability in Totolink A3700R Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.9 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked in the top 49.6% 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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-11499
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability has been found in TOTOLINK A3700R 9.1.2u.5822_B20200513 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function setSmartQosCfg of the file /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit…
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has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Unauthenticated remote access to setSmartQosCfg via public-facing web CGI enables exploitation of public-facing application (T1190) and privilege escalation from no credentials to admin configuration change (T1068).
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
The access control policy and procedures directly mandate and enforce proper access control mechanisms across the organization.
Supervision and review of access control activities directly detects and remediates improper access configurations or usages.
Defining account types, requiring approvals for creation, specifying authorizations, monitoring usage, and reviewing accounts directly prevents improper access control by ensuring only authorized accounts exist and are used.
The control requires explicit definition of separated access authorizations, making incorrect privilege assignments that bundle conflicting duties harder to implement.
Ensures privileges are assigned only as necessary rather than incorrectly over-granted.
Device lock enforces restricted access until re-authentication, directly reducing unauthorized use of active sessions.
Explicitly identifying and documenting actions permitted without identification or authentication enforces proper access control boundaries by defining justified exceptions.
By automatically labeling outputs with security attributes, the control supports attribute-based enforcement and reduces exploitability of improper access control weaknesses.