What is CVE-2022-47208?

CVE-2022-47208 is a high-severity vulnerability in Netgear Nighthawk Ax11000, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2022-12-16.

How severe is CVE-2022-47208?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

RCE in Netgear Nighthawk Ax11000

CVE-2022-47208

The “puhttpsniff” service, which runs by default, is susceptible to command injection due to improperly sanitized user input. An unauthenticated attacker on the same network segment as the router can execute arbitrary commands on the device without authentication.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.012 (65.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Netgear Nighthawk_ax11000
Netgear Nighthawk_ax11000_firmware
Netgear Nighthawk_ax1800
Netgear Nighthawk_ax1800_firmware
Netgear Nighthawk_ax2400
Netgear Nighthawk_ax2400_firmware
Netgear Nighthawk_ax3000
Netgear Nighthawk_ax3000_firmware
Netgear Nighthawk_ax5400
Netgear Nighthawk_ax5400_firmware

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

vulnreport@tenable.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-47208?: CVE-2022-47208 is a high-severity vulnerability in Netgear Nighthawk Ax11000, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2022-12-16.
How severe is CVE-2022-47208?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.