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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

CVE-2024-7616

Medium
5.1/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in Edimax IC-6220DC and IC-5150W up to 3.06. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function cgiFormString of the file ipcam_cgi. The manipulation of the argument host leads to command injection. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

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  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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CWE-77 - Command Injection

A command injection attack involves injecting an operating system command through the data input, which gets executed on the host operating system with the privileges of the victimized application. The impact of a command injection attack may range from loss of data confidentiality and integrity to unauthorized remote access to the hosting system. The attack may cause serious data breaches and system takeover.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published