Zyxel Users Beware: Critical OS Command Injection Flaw Threatens Routers
Zyxel, a communications company, has released an advisory warning users of a critical input validation vulnerability impacting many of its router models. CVE-2024-7261, with a CVSS score of 9.8, could potentially allow unauthenticated attackers to perform OS command injection.
Zyxel, a communications company, has released an advisory warning users of a critical input validation vulnerability impacting many of its router models. CVE-2024-7261, with a CVSS score of 9.8, could potentially allow unauthenticated attackers to perform OS command injection.
According to Zyxel, the improper neutralization of special characters in the “host” parameter within the CGI program of certain AP and security router versions could enable an unauthenticated attacker to execute OS commands by sending a specially crafted cookie to a vulnerable device. At the time of this blog’s release, no PoC or technical details had been released for this CVE.Detect and patch critical vulnerabilities with a patch management tool.
Products Affected and Patches
Zyxel has listed the following router models as vulnerable in their advisory:
The vendor has not provided mitigations, but patches have been released for each vulnerable model, as is seen in the above table.
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