🛡️ CVE-2024-12847 — dgn1000-firmware

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-78 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

NETGEAR DGN1000 before 1.1.00.48 is vulnerable to an authentication bypass vulnerability. A remote and unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary operating system commands as root by sending crafted HTTP requests to the setup.cgi endpoint. This vulnerability has been observed to be exploited in the wild since at least 2017 and specifically by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2025-02-06 UTC.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, 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-2024-12847 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2024-12847 is recorded against 1 package.

  • dgn1000-firmware (fixed in 1.1.00.48)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 January 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

seclists.org
vulncheck.com
www.exploit-db.com
www.exploit-db.com

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-01-10
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
dgn1000-firmware — 1.1.00.48

References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2013/Jun/8
Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25978

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