RCE in Netgear Wnr854t

CVE-2024-54807

In Netgear WNR854T 1.5.2 (North America), the UPNP service is vulnerable to command injection in the function addmap_exec which parses the NewInternalClient parameter of the AddPortMapping SOAPAction into a system call without sanitation. An attacker can send a specially crafted SOAPAction request for AddPortMapping via the router's WANIPConn1 service to achieve arbitrary 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

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-54807?
CVE-2024-54807 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-2024-54807?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-54807 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.