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high 8.8

CVE-2020-10924 in the critical feed json

This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to bypass authentication on affected installations of NETGEAR R6700 V1.0.4.84_10.0.58…

published 2020-07-28 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-3330

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
87.3%
EPSS 87.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.7%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/admin/http/netgear_r6700_pass_reset)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

87.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 8.3 AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • NETGEAR R6700

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

References

Sources

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