What is CVE-2021-45549?

CVE-2021-45549 is a high-severity vulnerability in Netgear Lax20, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.4/10. Published 2021-12-26.

How severe is CVE-2021-45549?

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

RCE in Netgear Lax20

CVE-2021-45549

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by command injection by an authenticated user. This affects LAX20 before 1.1.6.28, MK62 before 1.1.6.122, MR60 before 1.1.6.122, MS60 before 1.1.6.122, R6400v2 before 1.0.4.118, R6700v3 before 1.0.4.118…

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.006 (45.8th 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 Lax20
Netgear Lax20_firmware
Netgear Mk62
Netgear Mk62_firmware
Netgear Mr60
Netgear Mr60_firmware
Netgear Ms60
Netgear Ms60_firmware
Netgear R6400
Netgear R6400_firmware

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-45549?: CVE-2021-45549 is a high-severity vulnerability in Netgear Lax20, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.4/10. Published 2021-12-26.
How severe is CVE-2021-45549?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.4 out of 10.