CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-34979
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-01-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 8.3 HIGH — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of NETGEAR R6260 1.1.0.78_1.0.1 routers. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of SOAP requests. When parsing the SOAPAction header, the process does not properly validate the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-13512.
Affected configurations
• netgear r6260 firmware 1.1.0.78 1.0.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://kb.netgear.com/000064261/Security-Advisory-for-Vertical-Privilege-Escalation-on-Some-Routers-PSV-2021-0152?article=000064261 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1241/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://kb.netgear.com/000064261/Security-Advisory-for-Vertical-Privilege-Escalation-on-Some-Routers-PSV-2021-0152?article=000064261 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1241/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry