What is CVE-2021-45540?

CVE-2021-45540 is a high-severity vulnerability in Netgear Mr60, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.4/10. Published 2021-12-26.

How severe is CVE-2021-45540?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.4 out of 10.

RCE in Netgear Mr60

CVE-2021-45540

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by command injection by an authenticated user. This affects 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…

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.006 (46.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.4 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Netgear Mr60
Netgear Mr60_firmware
Netgear Ms60
Netgear Ms60_firmware
Netgear R7000
Netgear R7000_firmware
Netgear R7900
Netgear R7900_firmware
Netgear R7900p
Netgear R7900p_firmware

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-45540?: CVE-2021-45540 is a high-severity vulnerability in Netgear Mr60, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.4/10. Published 2021-12-26.
How severe is CVE-2021-45540?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.4 out of 10.