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CVE-2023-38922

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Netgear JWNR2000v2 v1.0.0.11, XWN5001 v0.4.1.1, and XAVN2001v2 v0.4.0.7 were discovered to contain multiple buffer overflows via the http_passwd and http_username parameters in the update_auth function.

Affected products

• Netgear JWNR2000v2: 1.0.0.11
• NETGEAR Xavn2001V2 Firmware: 0.4.0.7
• NETGEAR Xwn5001 Firmware: 0.4.1.1

References

• https://github.com/FirmRec/IoT-Vulns/blob/main/netgear/http_passwd_auth/README.md
• https://www.netgear.com/about/security/
• https://github.com/FirmRec/IoT-Vulns/blob/main/netgear/http_passwd_auth/README.md
• https://www.netgear.com/about/security/

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