CVE-2019-12512

Medium

Description

In NETGEAR Nighthawk X10-R900 prior to 1.0.4.24, an attacker may execute stored XSS attacks against this device by supplying a malicious X-Forwarded-For header while performing an incorrect login attempt. The value supplied by this header will be inserted into administrative logs, found at Advanced settings->Administration->Logs, and may trigger when the page is viewed. Although this value is inserted into a textarea tag, the attack simply needs to supply a closing textarea tag.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.1
Exploit probability—
ProductNetgear Nighthawk X10-r9000 Firmware
PublishedFeb 24, 2020
First seenFeb 24, 2020

How to fix

Update
  • netgear nighthawk_x10-r9000_firmware1.0.4.24 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
netgear nighthawk_x10-r9000_firmwarev < 1.0.4.241.0.4.24

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CVE-2019-12512 · Netgear Nighthawk X10-r9000 Firmware · Dark Radar