🛡️ CVE-2026-18589

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-119 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability was found in Wavlink WL-NU516U1 708c073-mt7628. This impacts the function change_password of the file nas.cgi. The manipulation of the argument User1Passwd results in stack-based buffer overflow. The attack can be executed remotely. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The affected component should be upgraded. The vendor was contacted early, responded in a very professional manner and quickly released a fixed version of the affected product.

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-2026-18589 is classified as CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Buffer Bounds. A read or write is performed without confirming it stays inside the allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory.

Affected software

CVE-2026-18589 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 3 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

dl.wavlink.com
github.com
vuldb.com
vuldb.com
vuldb.com
vuldb.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-119
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-03
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown

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