What is CVE-2020-15498?

CVE-2020-15498 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Asus Rt-ac1900p, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2020-08-26.

How severe is CVE-2020-15498?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Asus Rt-ac1900p

CVE-2020-15498

An issue was discovered on ASUS RT-AC1900P routers before 3.0.0.4.385_20253. The router accepts an arbitrary server certificate for a firmware update. The culprit is the --no-check-certificate option passed to wget tool used to download fi…

Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation

EPSS: 0.004 (34.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Asus Rt-ac1900p
Asus Rt-ac1900p_firmware
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-15498?: CVE-2020-15498 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Asus Rt-ac1900p, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2020-08-26.
How severe is CVE-2020-15498?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.