Vulnerability · Published May 22, 2023 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2023-31742
High 7.2
In plain English
A high-severity command injection in the affected software. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 9.1% (higher than 95% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit.
Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.2High
Exploit odds (30 days)9.1%top 4.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Metasploit
Official description
There is a command injection vulnerability in the Linksys WRT54GL router with firmware version 4.30.18.006. If an attacker gains web management privileges, they can inject commands into the post request parameters wl_ant, wl_rate, WL_atten_ctl, ttcp_num, ttcp_size in the httpd s Start_EPI() function, thereby gaining shell privileges.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-77 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H