CVE-2023-2374

Er X Firmware vulnerability

CVSS

7.2

EPSS

6.8%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

A security flaw has been discovered in Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X up to 2.0.9-hotfix.6. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Web Management Interface. Performing a manipulation of the argument ecn-down results in command injection. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. The existence of this vulnerability is still disputed at present. The vendor position is that post-authentication issues are not accepted as vulnerabilities.

Affected vendor

Affected product

Er X Firmware

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-74 — Injection
CWE-77 — Command Injection

Published

2023-04-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring high privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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