CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-18320

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2018-10-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-10-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

An issue was discovered in the Merlin.PHP component 0.6.6 for Asuswrt-Merlin devices. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands because exec.php has a popen call. NOTE: the vendor indicates that Merlin.PHP is designed only for use on a trusted intranet network, and intentionally allows remote code execution

Affected configurations

• asuswrt-merlin project rt-ac5300 firmware (<= 380.70) • asuswrt-merlin project rt ac1900p firmware (<= 380.70) • asuswrt-merlin project rt-ac68u firmware (<= 380.70) • asuswrt-merlin project rt-ac68p firmware (<= 380.70) • asuswrt-merlin project rt-ac88u firmware (<= 380.70) • asuswrt-merlin project rt-ac66u b1 firmware (<= 380.70) • asuswrt-merlin project rt-ac56u firmware (<= 380.70) • asuswrt-merlin project rt-ac3200 firmware (<= 380.70) • asuswrt-merlin project rt-ac68uf firmware (<= 380.70) • asuswrt-merlin project rt-ac87 firmware (<= 380.70) • asuswrt-merlin project rt-ac3100 firmware (<= 380.70) • asuswrt-merlin project rt-ac1900 firmware (<= 380.70) • asuswrt-merlin project rt-ac86u firmware (<= 380.70) • asuswrt-merlin project rt-ac2900 firmware (<= 380.70)

References