What is CVE-2024-54803?

CVE-2024-54803 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Netgear Wnr854t, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-03-31.

How severe is CVE-2024-54803?

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

RCE in Netgear Wnr854t

CVE-2024-54803

Netgear WNR854T 1.5.2 (North America) is vulnerable to Command Injection. An attacker can send a specially crafted request to post.cgi, updating the nvram parameter pppoe_peer_mac and forcing a reboot. This will result in command injection.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.016 (73.6th 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 Wnr854t
Netgear Wnr854t_firmware — versions 1.5.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-54803?: CVE-2024-54803 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Netgear Wnr854t, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-03-31.
How severe is CVE-2024-54803?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.