CVE-2016-10174

CVE-2016-10174 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in NETGEAR WNR2000v5 Router. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 25, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by April 15, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. NETGEAR has 8 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.

The NETGEAR WNR2000v5 router contains a buffer overflow in the hidden_lang_avi parameter when invoking the URL /apply.cgi?/lang_check.html. This buffer overflow can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution.

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

• http://kb.netgear.com/000036549/Insecure-Remote-Access-and-Command-Execution-Security-Vulnerability
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Dec/72
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95867
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pedrib/PoC/master/advisories/netgear-wnr2000.txt
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40949/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41719/
• http://kb.netgear.com/000036549/Insecure-Remote-Access-and-Command-Execution-Security-Vulnerability
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Dec/72