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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2023-40478

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 5/02/2024 11:15:20 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added CVSS V3

								
							
							
						
Zero Day Initiative AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Added CWE

								
							
							
						
Zero Day Initiative CWE-121
Added Description

								
							
							
						
NETGEAR RAX30 Telnet CLI passwd Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of NETGEAR RAX30 routers. Although authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability, the existing authentication mechanism can be bypassed.

The specific flaw exists within the telnet CLI service, which listens on TCP port 23. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-20009.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Zero Day Initiative https://kb.netgear.com/000065649/Security-Advisory-for-Post-authentication-Buffer-Overflow-on-the-RAX30-PSV-2023-0002 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Zero Day Initiative https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1163/ [No types assigned]