CVE-2025-4116
Published: 30 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-4116 is a high-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Netgear Jwnr2000 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.7 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 45.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-12721
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Netgear JWNR2000v2 1.0.0.11. Affected by this issue is the function get_cur_lang_ver. The manipulation of the argument host leads to buffer overflow. The attack may be launched remotely. The vendor…
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- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Remote unauthenticated buffer overflow in the router's get_cur_lang_ver function (likely web UI via 'host' parameter) enables exploitation of a public-facing application for initial access (T1190) and application/system exploitation for denial of service (T1499.004).
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.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.