Vulnerability · Published Jul 28, 2020 · Assigned by zdi

CVE-2020-15417

Medium 6.3

In plain English

A medium-severity stack buffer overflow in R6700 from NETGEAR. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (higher than 71% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)6.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 28.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of NETGEAR R6700 V1.0.4.84_10.0.58 routers. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of string table file uploads. A crafted gui_region in a string table file can trigger an overflow of a fixed-length stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the web server. Was ZDI-CAN-9756.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
NETGEAR	R6700	V1.0.4.84_10.0.58

Weakness: CWE-121 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-713/ x_refsource_MISC