What is CVE-2024-54805?

CVE-2024-54805 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-2024-54805?

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

Is CVE-2024-54805 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE in Netgear Wnr854t

CVE-2024-54805

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 get_email. After which, they can visit the send_log.cgi endpoint which uses the parameter in a system call to achieve command execution.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.023 (81.3th 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

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-54805?: CVE-2024-54805 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-2024-54805?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-54805 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.