- 8.6HighCVSS base score
- 4.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
An authenticated OS command injection vulnerability exists in various Linksys router models (tested on WRT160Nv2) running firmware version v2.0.03 via the apply.cgi endpoint. The web interface fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input passed to the ping_size parameter during diagnostic operations. An attacker with valid credentials can inject arbitrary shell commands, enabling remote code execution.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it. 4 references of the record are tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits5
Metasploit modules1 module
- Linksys WRT160nv2 apply.cgi Remote Command Injection (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/http/linksys_wrt160nv2_apply_execRank excellentdisclosed 11 Feb 2013
References tagged exploit4 references
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/linux/http/linksys_wrt160nv2_apply_exec.rb (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24478 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25608 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140830181242/http://www.s3cur1ty.de/m1adv2013-012 (opens in a new tab)technical-descriptionexploit
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Published
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulnCheckCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High8.6 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | High8.6 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 8.8% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Affected products
References
References5
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/linux/http/linksys_wrt160nv2_apply_exec.rb (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24478 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25608 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140830181242/http://www.s3cur1ty.de/m1adv2013-012 (opens in a new tab)technical-descriptionexploit
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/linksys-legacy-routers-remote-command-injection (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-7268 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2013-10058)Record last updated .