CVE-2022-3218Necta WiFi Mouse (Mouse Server) client-side authentication bypass
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 74.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Due to a reliance on client-side authentication, the WiFi Mouse (Mouse Server) from Necta LLC's authentication mechanism is trivially bypassed, which can result in 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.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- Wifi Mouse RCE (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/misc/wifi_mouse_rceRank normaldisclosed 25 Feb 2021
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By rapid7
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 24 months later
· 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 74.2% · top 0.5% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
Necta LLC · WiFi Mouse (Mouse Server)
- affected 1.8.3.4 – ≤ 1.8.3.4
- affected 1.8.2.3 – ≤ 1.8.2.3
References
References5
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/16985 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50972 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49601 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/H4rk3nz0/PenTesting/blob/main/Exploits/wifi%20mouse/wifi-mouse-server-rce.py (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168509/WiFi-Mouse-1.8.3.4-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
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-2022-42632 (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-2022-3218)Record last updated .