CVE-2020-10924

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2020-10924. Includes Metasploit module auxiliary/admin/http/netgear_r6700_pass_reset.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This Metasploit module exploits CVE-2020-10924, a buffer overflow in the UPnP daemon of Netgear R6700v3 routers, to reset the admin password to the factory default. It leverages an authentication bypass (CVE-2020-10923) to send a crafted SOAP request, triggering the vulnerability and crashing the service.

This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to bypass authentication on affected installations of NETGEAR R6700 V1.0.4.84_10.0.58 routers. Although authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability, the existing authentication mechanism can be bypassed. The specific flaw exists within the UPnP service, which listens on TCP port 5000 by default. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length, stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-9643.