CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-12946
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-10-07
- Assigner
- a2826606-91e7-4eb6-899e-8484bd4575d5
- CVSS 4.0 (a2826606-91e7-4eb6-899e-8484bd4575d5)
- 4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:N/AU:N/R:A/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
A vulnerability in the speedtest feature of affected NETGEAR Nighthawk routers, caused by improper input validation, can allow attackers on the router's WAN side, using attacker-in-the-middle techniques (MiTM) to manipulate DNS responses and execute commands when speedtests are run.
This issue affects RS700: through 1.0.7.82; RAX54Sv2 : before V1.1.6.36; RAX41v2: before V1.1.6.36; RAX50: before V1.2.14.114; RAXE500: before V1.2.14.114; RAX41: before V1.0.17.142; RAX43: before V1.0.17.142; RAX35v2: before V1.0.17.142; RAXE450: before V1.2.14.114; RAX43v2: before V1.1.6.36; RAX42: before V1.0.17.142; RAX45: before V1.0.17.142; RAX50v2: before V1.1.6.36; MR90: before V1.0.2.46; MS90: before V1.0.2.46; RAX42v2: before V1.1.6.36; RAX49S: before V1.1.6.36.
Affected configurations
• netgear rs700 firmware (< 1.0.9.6)
• netgear rax54sv2 firmware (< 1.1.6.36)
• netgear rax45v2 firmware (< 1.1.6.36)
• netgear rax41v2 firmware (< 1.1.6.36)
• netgear rax50 firmware (< 1.2.14.114)
• netgear raxe500 firmware (< 1.2.14.114)
• netgear rax41 firmware (< 1.0.17.142)
• netgear rax43 firmware (< 1.0.17.142)
• netgear rax35v2 firmware (< 1.0.17.142)
• netgear raxe450 firmware (< 1.0.17.142)
• netgear rax43v2 firmware (< 1.1.6.36)
• netgear rax42 firmware (< 1.0.17.142)
• netgear rax45 firmware (< 1.0.17.142)
• netgear rax50v2 firmware (< 1.1.6.36)
• netgear mr90 firmware (< 1.0.2.46)
• netgear ms90 firmware (< 1.0.2.46)
• netgear rax42v2 firmware (< 1.1.6.36)
• netgear rax49s firmware (< 1.1.6.36)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://kb.netgear.com/000070416/December-2025-NETGEAR-Security-Advisory Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/RAX50 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/mr90 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/ms90 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax35v2 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax41 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax41v2 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax42 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax42v2 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax43 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax43v2 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax45 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax49s Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax50v2 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax54sv2 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/raxe450 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/raxe500 Patch, Product
- https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rs700 Patch, Product