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🛡️ CVE-2023-34283 — rax30-firmware

🟡 CVSS 4.6 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-59 NVD
4.6
CVSS Score
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Description

NETGEAR RAX30 USB Share Link Following Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows physically present attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of NETGEAR RAX30 routers. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the handling of symbolic links on removable USB media. By creating a symbolic link, an attacker can abuse the router's web server to access arbitrary local files. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to disclose information in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-19498.

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 none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Physical — the attacker has to touch the device.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-34283 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-2023-34283 is recorded against 1 package.

  • rax30-firmware (fixed in 1.0.10.94)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 May 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

kb.netgear.com
www.zerodayinitiative.com
kb.netgear.com
www.zerodayinitiative.com

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rax30-firmware has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-59: Link Following) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-59
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-05-03
Updated 2026-08-20
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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