ASUS Critical Router Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code

ASUS has recently released a security advisory in which several ASUS critical router vulnerabilities have been fixed. The vulnerabilities were found to affect multiple ASUS routers with CVEs.

The company has recommended its users upgrade to the latest version of firmware to fix these router vulnerabilities.

CVE(s) of ASUS critical Router Vulnerabilities:

ASUS has fixed around 9 CVEs, as reported in the security advisory. The recent one was found to be CVE-2023-28702, and the oldest one was CVE-2018-1160.

CVE	CVSS Score	CVSS Vector	Description
CVE-2023-28702	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Command Injection due to unsanitized parameters in specific web URLs
CVE-2023-28703	7.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Out of Bounds Write due to insufficient validation of network packet header
CVE-2023-31195	N/A	N/A	Man-In-the-Middle attack due to insecure Cookie attribute
CVE-2022-46871	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Outdated Library (libusrsctp) exploitation
CVE-2022-38105	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	Out-of-bounds read leads to denial of service
CVE-2022-35401	8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Authentication bypass due to expired key
CVE-2018-1160	9.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Out of bounds write in dsi_opensess.c in Netatalk leads to arbitrary code execution
CVE-2022-38393	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	Out-of-bounds read leads to denial of service
CVE-2022-26376	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Bounds writing leads to memory corruption

Affected Products:

The list of routers affected by these CVE(s) includes,

GT6
GT-AXE16000
GT-AXE11000 PRO
GT-AXE11000
GT-AX6000
GT-AX11000
GS-AX5400
GS-AX3000
ZenWiFi XT9
ZenWiFi XT8
ZenWiFi XT8_V2
RT-AX86U PRO
RT-AX86U
RT-AX86S
RT-AX82U
RT-AX58U
RT-AX3000
TUF-AX6000
TUF-AX5400

ASUS has recommended all of its users patch their routers to prevent attackers.

If upgrading is not required or might affect your configurations, turning off the vulnerable services is recommended.

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Guru Baran

Gurubaran KS is a cybersecurity analyst, and Journalist with a strong focus on emerging threats and digital defense strategies. He is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Cyber Security News, where he leads editorial coverage on global cybersecurity developments.