🛡️ CVE-2022-43970
🟠 CVSS 7.2 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-120 NVD
7.2
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Linksys WRT54GL Wireless-G Broadband Router with firmware <= 4.30.18.006. A stack-based buffer overflow in the Start_EPI function within the httpd binary allows an authenticated attacker with administrator privileges to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system as root. This vulnerablity can be triggered over the network via a malicious POST request to /apply.cgi.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-120
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-01-09
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wrt54gl-firmware 4.30.18.006

References

Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://youtu.be/73-1lhvJPNg
Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://youtu.be/RfWVYCUBNZ0
Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://youtu.be/TeWAmZaKQ_w
Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://youtu.be/73-1lhvJPNg
Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://youtu.be/RfWVYCUBNZ0
Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://youtu.be/TeWAmZaKQ_w

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