CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-24355
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-09-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
Description
Zyxel VMG5313-B30B router on firmware 5.13(ABCJ.6)b3_1127, and possibly older versions of firmware are affected by insecure permissions which allows regular and other users to create new users with elevated privileges. This is done by changing "FirstIndex" field in JSON that is POST-ed during account creation. Similar may also be possible with account deletion.
Affected configurations
• zyxel vmg5313-b30b firmware (<= 5.13\(abcj.6\)b3 1127)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
References
- https://blog.somegeneric.ninja/Zyxel_VMG5153_B30B Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.somegeneric.ninja/Zyxel_VMG5153_B30B_part2 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.zyxel.com/support/security_advisories.shtml Vendor Advisory
- https://blog.somegeneric.ninja/Zyxel_VMG5153_B30B Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.somegeneric.ninja/Zyxel_VMG5153_B30B_part2 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.zyxel.com/support/security_advisories.shtml Vendor Advisory