CVE-2025-12946

Summary

A vulnerability in the speedtest feature of affected NETGEAR Nighthawk routers, caused by improper input validation, can allow attackers on the router's WAN side, using attacker-in-the-middle techniques (MiTM) to manipulate DNS responses and execute commands when speedtests are run.

This issue affects RS700: through 1.0.7.82; RAX54Sv2 : before V1.1.6.36; RAX41v2: before V1.1.6.36; RAX50: before V1.2.14.114; RAXE500: before V1.2.14.114; RAX41: before V1.0.17.142; RAX43: before V1.0.17.142; RAX35v2: before V1.0.17.142; RAXE450: before V1.2.14.114; RAX43v2: before V1.1.6.36; RAX42: before V1.0.17.142; RAX45: before V1.0.17.142; RAX50v2: before V1.1.6.36; MR90: before V1.0.2.46; MS90: before V1.0.2.46; RAX42v2: before V1.1.6.36; RAX49S: before V1.1.6.36.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
NETGEARRS7000 <= 1.0.7.82affected
NETGEARRAX54Sv20 < V1.1.6.36affected
NETGEARRAX41v20 < V1.1.6.36affected
NETGEARRAX500 < V1.2.14.114affected
NETGEARRAXE5000 < V1.2.14.114affected
NETGEARRAX410 < V1.0.17.142affected
NETGEARRAX430 < V1.0.17.142affected
NETGEARRAX35v20 < V1.0.17.142affected
NETGEARRAXE4500 < V1.2.14.114affected
NETGEARRAX43v20 < V1.1.6.36affected
NETGEARRAX420 < V1.0.17.142affected
NETGEARRAX450 < V1.0.17.142affected
NETGEARRAX50v20 < V1.1.6.36affected
NETGEARMR900 < V1.0.2.46affected
NETGEARRAX42v20 < V1.1.6.36affected
NETGEARRAX49S0 < V1.1.6.36affected
NETGEARMS900 < V1.0.2.46affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-20: CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References