🛡️ CVE-2025-5438 — re6250-firmware

🟡 CVSS 6.3 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-74 NVD
6.3
CVSS Score
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Description

A vulnerability was found in Linksys RE6500, RE6250, RE6300, RE6350, RE7000 and RE9000 1.0.013.001/1.0.04.001/1.0.04.002/1.1.05.003/1.2.07.001. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function WPS of the file /goform/WPS. The manipulation of the argument PIN leads to command injection. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-5438 is classified as CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection'). The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or…

Affected software

CVE-2025-5438 is recorded against 6 packages.

  • re6250-firmware
  • re6300-firmware
  • re6350-firmware
  • re6500-firmware
  • re7000-firmware
  • re9000-firmware

Timeline and source

Published on 2 June 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

github.com
vuldb.com
vuldb.com
vuldb.com
www.linksys.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-74
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-06-02
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
re6250-firmware
re6300-firmware
re6350-firmware
re6500-firmware
re7000-firmware
re9000-firmware

References

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