CVE-2025-54404

HighPublic PoCRCE

Published: 07 October 2025

Published

07 October 2025

Modified

03 November 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0041 61.2th percentile

Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-54404 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Planet Wgr-500 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 38.8% 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 are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 2 other techniques. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Directly remediates the specific OS command injection vulnerabilities in the swctrl functionality by identifying, reporting, and correcting the flaws.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Prevents arbitrary command execution by implementing input validation on the new_device_name parameter in network requests to the swctrl functionality.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match

prevent

Limits the impact of successful command injection by enforcing least privilege on the low-privilege account required to trigger the swctrl vulnerabilities.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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T1059.008 Network Device CLI Execution

Adversaries may abuse scripting or built-in command line interpreters (CLI) on network devices to execute malicious command and payloads.

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T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

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Why these techniques?

OS command injection via crafted network request to web parameter enables exploitation of public-facing application (T1190), arbitrary OS command execution on network device (T1059.008), and privilege escalation from low privileges to high-impact RCE (T1068).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

NVD Description

Multiple OS command injection vulnerabilities exist in the swctrl functionality of Planet WGR-500 v1.3411b190912. A specially crafted network request can lead to arbitrary command execution. An attacker can send a network request to trigger these vulnerabilities.This command injection is related…

to the `new_device_name` request parameter.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-54404 involves multiple OS command injection vulnerabilities (CWE-78) in the swctrl functionality of Planet WGR-500 version v1.3411b190912. Published on 2025-10-07, the flaws are triggered by a specially crafted network request targeting the `new_device_name` request parameter, enabling arbitrary command execution. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

An attacker with low privileges can exploit these issues remotely over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction. By sending a malicious network request, the attacker gains the ability to execute arbitrary OS commands on the device, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Mitigation guidance and additional details are available in the Talos Intelligence advisory at https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2227.