NETGEAR Multiple WAP Devices Command Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2016-1555)
Severity: critical · Patch status: patched · Since 2022-03-25 · CVE-2016-1555
Multiple NETGEAR Wireless Access Point devices allows unauthenticated web pages to pass form input directly to the command-line interface. Exploitation allows for arbitrary code execution. CISA added CVE-2016-1555 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Mar 25, 2022, which means attackers are exploiting it in the wild.
What to do
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- US federal agencies must remediate by Apr 15, 2022 (BOD 22-01); treat that as the outer limit.
Sources
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