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Vulnerability · Published Jan 13, 2026 · Assigned by NETGEAR

CVE-2026-0408Path traversal vulnerability in Netgear WiFi Range Extenders

Medium 6.1

In plain English

A medium-severity improper authentication in EX2800 from NETGEAR. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 16% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 83.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A path traversal vulnerability in NETGEAR WiFi range extenders allows an attacker with LAN authentication to access the router's IP and review the contents of the dynamically generated webproc file, which records the username and password submitted to the router GUI.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
NETGEAR EX5000 0 – before v1.0.1.82
NETGEAR EX3110 0 – before v1.0.1.82
NETGEAR EX6110 0 – before v1.0.1.82
NETGEAR EX2800 0 – before v1.0.1.82

Weakness: CWE-287 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber

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