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High · 7.2 CVE-2018-3954 EUVD-2018-15740GHSA-5g8c-mfvh-j87f

Devices in the Linksys ESeries line of routers (Linksys E1200 Firmware Version 2.0.09 and Linksys E2500 Firmware Version 3.0.04) are suscep…

Published Oct 17, 2018 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by talos

Description

Devices in the Linksys ESeries line of routers (Linksys E1200 Firmware Version 2.0.09 and Linksys E2500 Firmware Version 3.0.04) are susceptible to OS command injection vulnerabilities due to improper filtering of data passed to and retrieved from NVRAMData entered into the 'Router Name' input field through the web portal is submitted to apply.cgi as the value to the 'machine_name' POST parameter. When the 'preinit' binary receives the SIGHUP signal it enters a code path that calls a function named 'set_host_domain_name' from its libshared.so shared object.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linksys ESeries E1200 Firmware Version 2.0.09 —
Linksys ESeries E2500 Firmware Version 3.0.04 —

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