CVE-2024-12847

CRITICAL 9.8

NETGEAR DGN setup.cgi OS Command Injection

CVSS Score

9.8

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

NETGEAR DGN1000 before 1.1.00.48 is vulnerable to an authentication bypass vulnerability. A remote and unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary operating system commands as root by sending crafted HTTP requests to the setup.cgi endpoint. This vulnerability has been observed to be exploited in the wild since at least 2017 and specifically by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2025-02-06 UTC.

CWE	CWE-78 CWE-306
Vendor	netgear
Product	dgn1000
Published	Jan 10, 2025
Last Updated	Apr 7, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Affected Versions

NETGEAR / DGN1000

0 < 1.1.00.48

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

seclists.org: https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2013/Jun/8 exploit-db.com: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25978 exploit-db.com: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43055 vulncheck.com: https://vulncheck.com/advisories/netgear-dgn

Credits

Roberto Paleari