CVE-2018-5999
CVE-2018-5999
Vexday Risk Score
82Fix now
SSVC decision (CISA)
Act
Exploitation + impact → act immediately
Exploit maturity
Functional exploit
Automatable exploit available (Nuclei/Metasploit).
CVSS —EPSS 87.2%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit simPatch —
Lifecycle
22 Jan 2018Metasploit module available
22 Jan 2018Public PoC
22 Jan 2018Published on NVD
Recommendation: Patch as soon as possible — active exploitation confirmed.
An issue was discovered in AsusWRT before 3.0.0.4.384_10007. In the handle_request function in router/httpd/httpd.c, processing of POST requests continues even if authentication fails.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 4
cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/43881/unverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44176/unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44176unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/43881unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3589https://github.com/pedrib/PoC/blob/master/advisories/asuswrt-lan-rce.txthttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/pedrib/PoC/master/exploits/metasploit/asuswrt_lan_rce.rbhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43881/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44176/