CVE-2016-6277

unknown KEV

Published 2022-03-07 · Modified 2022-03-07

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

2.5

Description

NETGEAR confirmed multiple routers allow unauthenticated web pages to pass form input directly to the command-line interface, permitting remote code execution.

CISA KEV

Vendor: NETGEAR
Product: Multiple Routers
Due date: 2022-09-07

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

99%

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-41598 remote cgi verified

Metasploit · 2017-03-13

Netgear R7000 / R6400 - 'cgi-bin' Command Injection (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-40889 webapps cgi verified

Acew0rm · 2016-12-07

Netgear R7000 - Command Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/http/netgear_r7000_cgibin_exec rank 600

Netgear R7000 and R6400 cgi-bin Command Injection

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

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6277

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

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