CVE-2025-12942 (GCVE-0-2025-12942)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-11 16:17
Modified
2025-11-13 04:55
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:L/U:Amber
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Summary
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in NETGEAR R6260 and NETGEAR R6850 allows unauthenticated attackers connected to LAN with ability to perform MiTM attacks and control over DNS Server to perform command execution.This issue affects R6260: through 1.1.0.86; R6850: through 1.1.0.86.
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