CVE-2024-12847

NETGEAR DGN1000 before 1.1.00.48 is vulnerable to an authentication bypass vulnerability. A remote and unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary operating system commands as root by sending crafted HTTP requests to the setup.cgi endpoint. This vulnerability has been exploited in the wild since at least 2017.

Weakness

A product requires authentication, but the product has an alternate path or channel that does not require authentication.

Potential Mitigations

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/127.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/665.html

References

• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2013/Jun/8
• https://vulncheck.com/advisories/netgear-dgn
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25978
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43055