CVE-2018-18320

published 2018-10-15

CVE-2018-18320: An issue was discovered in the Merlin.PHP component 0.6.6 for Asuswrt-Merlin devices. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands because exec.php has a popen…

Priority P3 49 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

An issue was discovered in the Merlin.PHP component 0.6.6 for Asuswrt-Merlin devices. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands because exec.php has a popen call. NOTE: the vendor indicates that Merlin.PHP is designed only for use on a trusted intranet network, and intentionally allows remote code execution

Affected

14 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt-ac1900_firmware	<= 380.70	—
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt-ac2900_firmware	<= 380.70	—
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt-ac3100_firmware	<= 380.70	—
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt-ac3200_firmware	<= 380.70	—
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt-ac5300_firmware	<= 380.70	—
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt-ac56u_firmware	<= 380.70	—
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt-ac66u_b1_firmware	<= 380.70	—
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt-ac68p_firmware	<= 380.70	—
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt-ac68u_firmware	<= 380.70	—
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt-ac68uf_firmware	<= 380.70	—
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt-ac86u_firmware	<= 380.70	—
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt-ac87_firmware	<= 380.70	—
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt-ac88u_firmware	<= 380.70	—
asuswrt-merlin_project	rt_ac1900p_firmware	<= 380.70	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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