Authenticated command execution via unsafe strncpy copy
Published Jun 27, 2025 · Updated Jun 27, 2025
Stack-based buffer overflow in Linksys EA7200, EA7450, EA7500, and WRT1900ACS firmware allows remote authenticated users to execute commands. IGD's SetDefaultConnectionService function copies the attacker-controlled NewDefaultConnectionService value with strncpy into a fixed-size stack buffer without enforcing its capacity. Low-privileged network access to the Layer3Forwarding SOAP action is sufficient to corrupt the return path and invoke popen with attacker-controlled command data.
Summary
What happened
Stack-based buffer overflow in Linksys EA7200, EA7450, EA7500, and WRT1900ACS firmware allows remote authenticated users to execute commands. IGD's SetDefaultConnectionService function copies the attacker-controlled NewDefaultConnectionService value with strncpy into a fixed-size stack buffer without enforcing its capacity. Low-privileged network access to the Layer3Forwarding SOAP action is sufficient to corrupt the return path and invoke popen with attacker-controlled command data.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-6752
- Published
- Jun 27, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 27, 2025
- Vendor
- Linksys
- Product
- EA7450
- Classifications
- CWE-119, CWE-121, T1210
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 27, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 27, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=20250619
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Public exploit references
- Layer3Forwarding SetDefaultConnectionService proof of conceptfunctional · demonstrated
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