CVE-2020-5636 Command injection in Aterm SA3500G
An attacker with administrative privileges can execute arbitrary commands on NEC Aterm SA3500G routers via a crafted request.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-5636?
CVE-2020-5636 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in NEC Corporation Aterm SA3500G, published on 14 Dec 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Aterm SA3500G firmware versions prior to Ver. 3.5.9 allows an attacker with an administrative privilege to send a specially crafted request to a specific URL, which may result in an arbitrary command execution.
Weakness: CWE-78
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5636?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Necplatforms Aterm Sa3500g Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2020-5636?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5636 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2020-5636 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5636 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in NEC Corporation Aterm SA3500G
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3rqh-g6r9-mr2r.