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CVE-2016-6277

NETGEAR R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta, R6400 before 1.0.1.18.Beta, R6700 before 1.0.1.14.Beta, R6900, R7000 before 1.0.7.6.Beta, R7100LG before

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Listed in CISA KEV
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

NETGEAR router firmware for several R-series models (such as the R6250, R6400, R6700, R6900, R7000, R7100LG, R7300DST, R7900, and R8000) and D-series models (D6220, D6400, D7000) is affected. An remote attacker can exploit this flaw by sending specially crafted web requests to the router, allowing them to run arbitrary commands on the device.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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NETGEAR R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta, R6400 before 1.0.1.18.Beta, R6700 before 1.0.1.14.Beta, R6900, R7000 before 1.0.7.6.Beta, R7100LG before 1.0.0.28.Beta, R7300DST before 1.0.0.46.Beta, R7900 before 1.0.1.8.Beta, R8000 before 1.0.3.26.Beta, D6220, D6400, D7000, and possibly other routers allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the path info to cgi-bin/.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Added to CISA KEV

    CISA has evidence of exploitation in the wild

  3. CISA remediation deadline

    Due date for US federal agencies to patch

  4. Record last updated
  5. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 8

Exploit-DB

kb.netgear.com

sj-vs.net

kb.cert.org

securityfocus.com

kalypto.org

packetstormsecurity.com