CVE-2011-5010

critical

Published 2011-12-25 · Modified 2026-04-29

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

apps/a3/cfg_ethping.cgi in the Ctek SkyRouter 4200 and 4300 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the PINGADDRESS parameter for a "u" action.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18172 remote hardware verified

Metasploit · 2011-11-30

CTEK SkyRouter 4200/4300 - Command Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_unix/http/ctek_skyrouter rank 200

CTEK SkyRouter 4200 and 4300 Command Execution

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.