CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-12590

7.2 HIGH Published 2018-06-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-134

Description

Ubiquiti Networks EdgeSwitch version 1.7.3 and prior suffer from an externally controlled format-string vulnerability due to lack of protection on the admin CLI, leading to code execution and privilege escalation greater than administrators themselves are allowed. An attacker with access to an admin account could escape the restricted CLI and execute arbitrary code.

Affected configurations

• ui edgeswitch firmware (<= 1.7.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness

References