CVE-2018-3954
HIGHLinksys E1200 and E2500 Firmware - OS Command Injection via Router Name Parameter
Title source: llmDescription
Devices in the Linksys ESeries line of routers (Linksys E1200 Firmware Version 2.0.09 and Linksys E2500 Firmware Version 3.0.04) are susceptible to OS command injection vulnerabilities due to improper filtering of data passed to and retrieved from NVRAMData entered into the 'Router Name' input field through the web portal is submitted to apply.cgi as the value to the 'machine_name' POST parameter. When the 'preinit' binary receives the SIGHUP signal it enters a code path that calls a function named 'set_host_domain_name' from its libshared.so shared object.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0625
Scores
CVSS v3
7.2
EPSS
0.0759
EPSS Percentile
91.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-78
Status
published
Products (2)
linksys/e1200_firmware
2.0.09
linksys/e2500_firmware
3.0.04
Published
Oct 17, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026