CVE-2018-8879

Summary

CVECVE-2018-8879
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-21 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-12-04 14:08:00 UTC
DescriptionStack-based buffer overflow in Asuswrt-Merlin firmware for ASUS devices older than 384.4 and ASUS firmware before 3.0.0.4.382.50470 for devices allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a long string to the blocking.asp page via a GET or POST request. Vulnerable parameters are flag, mac, and cat_id.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Asus Rt-ac66u - All All All
Hardware Asus Rt-ac66u - All All All
Operating System Asus Rt-ac66u Firmware All All All All
Operating System Asus Rt-ac66u Firmware All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_001_beta1.pdf MISC pagedout.institute Exploit, Third Party Advisory
We'll be back. MISC www.asus.com Product
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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