What is CVE-2021-45617?

CVE-2021-45617 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Netgear Cbr40, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2021-12-26.

How severe is CVE-2021-45617?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Netgear Cbr40

CVE-2021-45617

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by command injection by an unauthenticated attacker. This affects CBR40 before 2.5.0.24, EAX20 before 1.0.0.48, EAX80 before 1.0.1.64, EX7500 before 1.0.0.72, R6400 before 1.0.1.68, R6900P before 1.3.2…

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.021 (79.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Netgear Cbr40
Netgear Cbr40_firmware
Netgear Eax20
Netgear Eax20_firmware
Netgear Eax80
Netgear Eax80_firmware
Netgear Ex7500
Netgear Ex7500_firmware
Netgear Mk62
Netgear Mk62_firmware

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-45617?: CVE-2021-45617 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Netgear Cbr40, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2021-12-26.
How severe is CVE-2021-45617?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.