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CVE-2023-28338

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

Any request send to a Netgear Nighthawk Wifi6 Router (RAX30)'s web service containing a “Content-Type” of “multipartboundary=” will result in the request body being written to “/tmp/mulipartFile” on the device itself. A sufficiently large file will cause device resources to be exhausted, resulting in the device becoming unusable until it is rebooted.

Affected products

• NETGEAR RAX30: all versions

References

• https://drupal9.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2023-12
• https://drupal9.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2023-12

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