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CVE-2019-15271

Cisco RV Series Routers Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild

This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2022-06-08. Federal due date: 2022-06-22.

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Impact

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of certain Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. The attacker must have either a valid credential or an active session token. The vulnerability is due to lack of input validation of the HTTP payload. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious HTTP request to the web-based management interface of the targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands with root privileges.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
CiscoRv016 Multi-Wan Vpn Firmware
before 4.2.3.10
CiscoRv042 Dual Wan Vpn Firmware
before 4.2.3.10
CiscoRv042g Dual Gigabit Wan Vpn Firmware
before 4.2.3.10
CiscoRv082 Dual Wan Vpn Firmware
before 4.2.3.10

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