# CVE-2025-44960: Command injection in SmartZone

> An attacker can execute arbitrary OS commands via an API parameter in RUCKUS SmartZone, requiring an upgrade to mitigate.

- **Severity:** High 8.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 4 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 3 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8v65-3h9x-p2qp

## What is CVE-2025-44960?

CVE-2025-44960 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in RUCKUS SmartZone, published on 4 Aug 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

RUCKUS SmartZone (SZ) before 6.1.2p3 Refresh Build allows OS command injection via a certain parameter in an API route.

Weakness: CWE-78 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-44960?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Commscope Ruckus Network Director, Commscope Ruckus Smartzone Firmware.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-44960?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-44960 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-44960 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-44960 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in RUCKUS SmartZone

- [CVE-2025-44961](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-44961/): Command injection in SmartZone (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2025-67304](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-67304/): Hardcoded credentials in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-67305](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-67305/): Hardcoded credentials in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-44963](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-44963/): Hardcoded credentials in Network Director (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2025-44955](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-44955/): Hardcoded credentials in Network Director (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-44960 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-44960 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in RUCKUS SmartZone, published on 4 Aug 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-44960 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: RUCKUS SmartZone. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-44960/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-44960/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-44960
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-44960
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-44960

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-44960/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.