CVE-2025-12946mediumCWE-20

CVE-2025-12946: medium-severity vulnerability in NETGEAR RS700

Improper input validation in NETGEAR Nighthawk routers

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 4.4epss 0.3%
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/S:N/AU:N/R:A/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
Affected products
NETGEAR · MR90NETGEAR · MS90NETGEAR · RAX35v2NETGEAR · RAX41NETGEAR · RAX41v2NETGEAR · RAX42NETGEAR · RAX42v2NETGEAR · RAX43NETGEAR · RAX43v2NETGEAR · RAX45NETGEAR · RAX49SNETGEAR · RAX50NETGEAR · RAX50v2NETGEAR · RAX54Sv2NETGEAR · RAXE450NETGEAR · RAXE500NETGEAR · RS700
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