CVE-2021-38539 — Improper Privilege Management in Netgear D8500 Firmware

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management3 documents3 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
CNA6.3
EPSS
0.2%
top 56.16%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
12
Netgear D8500 FirmwareNetgear R6400 FirmwareNetgear R6700 Firmware+9 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 11
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by privilege escalation. This affects D8500 before 1.0.3.44, R6400v2 before 1.0.2.66, R6700 before 1.0.2.6, R6700v3 before 1.0.2.66, R6900 before 1.0.2.4, R6900P before 1.3.2.126, R7000 before 1.0.9.42, R7000P before 1.3.2.126, R7100LG before 1.0.0.50, R7300DST before 1.0.0.70, R7900 before 1.0.3.10, R8300 before 1.0.2.130, and R8500 before 1.0.2.130.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages12 packages

▶NVDnetgear/r6900p_firmware< 1.3.2.126
▶NVDnetgear/r7000p_firmware< 1.3.2.126
▶NVDnetgear/d8500_firmware< 1.0.3.44
▶NVDnetgear/r6700_firmware< 1.0.2.6+1
▶NVDnetgear/r6900_firmware< 1.0.2.4

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-hw2x-9xxc-78jf: Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by privilege escalation↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2021-38539: Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by privilege escalation↗2021-08-10
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