CVE-2025-52690
Published: 16 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-52690 is a high-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Jro (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 32.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-52690 is a command injection vulnerability (CWE-77) affecting OmniAccess Stellar access points. Published on 2025-07-16, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.1 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). Successful exploitation enables an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root, resulting in potential loss of confidentiality, integrity, availability, and full control of the access point.
An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network without user interaction, though it requires high attack complexity. Upon successful exploitation, the attacker achieves root-level remote code execution, compromising the entire access point.
Advisories providing mitigation guidance include the AL-Enterprise security advisory SA-N0150 at https://www.al-enterprise.com/-/media/assets/internet/documents/sa-n0150-omniaccess-stellar-multiple-vulnerabilities.pdf, the Singapore CSA alert AL-2025-072 at https://www.csa.gov.sg/alerts-and-advisories/alerts/al-2025-072/, and further details at https://jro.sg/CVEs/CVE-2025-52690/.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-21585
Vulnerability details
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root, potentially leading to the loss of confidentiality, integrity, availability, and full control of the access point.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Command injection enables remote unauthenticated RCE as root on a network device (T1190: Exploit Public-Facing Application) and directly facilitates arbitrary Unix shell command execution (T1059.004: Unix Shell).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Timely flaw remediation through vendor patches directly eliminates the command injection vulnerability enabling root RCE in OmniAccess Stellar access points.
Information input validation directly prevents command injection (CWE-77) by ensuring untrusted remote inputs cannot execute arbitrary commands.
Vulnerability monitoring and scanning identifies CVE-2025-52690 in access points, enabling proactive patching before remote exploitation.