What is CVE-2021-38528?

CVE-2021-38528 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Netgear D8500, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.6/10. Published 2021-08-11.

How severe is CVE-2021-38528?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.6 out of 10.

RCE in Netgear D8500

CVE-2021-38528

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by command injection by an unauthenticated attacker. This affects D8500 before 1.0.3.58, R6900P before 1.3.2.132, R7000P before 1.3.2.132, R7100LG before 1.0.0.64, WNDR3400v3 before 1.0.1.38, and XR300…

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.020 (78.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.6 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Netgear D8500
Netgear D8500_firmware
Netgear R6900p
Netgear R6900p_firmware
Netgear R7000p
Netgear R7000p_firmware
Netgear R7100lg
Netgear R7100lg_firmware
Netgear Wndr3400 — versions v3
Netgear Wndr3400_firmware

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-38528?: CVE-2021-38528 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Netgear D8500, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.6/10. Published 2021-08-11.
How severe is CVE-2021-38528?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.6 out of 10.