# CVE-2018-20487: An issue was discovered in the firewall3 component in Inteno IOPSYS 1.0 through 3.16.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-04-11 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in the firewall3 component in Inteno IOPSYS 1.0 through 3.16. The attacker must make a JSON-RPC method call to add a firewall rule as an "include" and point the "path" argument to a malicious script or binary. This gets executed as root when the firewall changes are committed.

## What to do

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## References

- https://neonsea.uk/blog/2018/12/26/firewall-includes.html
- http://public.inteno.se/?p=feed-inteno-openwrt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e6159ca928d7f0c143be213afc6bf810c0329fe2

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