🛡️ CVE-2023-27850 — rax30-firmware

🟡 CVSS 6.8 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-59 NVD
6.8
CVSS Score
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Description

NETGEAR Nighthawk WiFi6 Router prior to V1.0.10.94 contains a file sharing mechanism that allows users with access to this feature to access arbitrary files on the device.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with physical access to the device, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-27850 is classified as CWE-59: Link Following. The software follows symbolic or hard links without verifying their target, so a planted link can redirect an operation to a sensitive file.

Affected software

CVE-2023-27850 is recorded against 1 package.

  • rax30-firmware (fixed in 1.0.10.94)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 March 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-59
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-03-10
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
rax30-firmware — 1.0.10.94

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