CVE-2023-2374Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X Web Management command injection
- 8.6HighCVSS base score
- 6.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
A security flaw has been discovered in Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X up to 2.0.9-hotfix.6. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Web Management Interface. Performing a manipulation of the argument ecn-down results in command injection. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. The existence of this vulnerability is still disputed at present. The vendor position is that post-authentication issues are not accepted as vulnerabilities.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
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References tagged exploit1 reference
- https://github.com/leetsun/IoT/tree/main/EdgeRouterX/CI/6 (opens in a new tab)broken-linkexploitx_transferred
Timeline
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Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulDBCNA (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/E:P |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:X/RC:R |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:X/RC:R |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 2.0 | High8.3 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 4.0 | High7.3 | 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:P/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)
- 6.9% · top 5.9% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Affected products
- affected 2.0.9-hotfix.0
- affected 2.0.9-hotfix.1
- affected 2.0.9-hotfix.2
- affected 2.0.9-hotfix.3
- affected 2.0.9-hotfix.4
- affected 2.0.9-hotfix.5
- affected 2.0.9-hotfix.6
References
References7
- VDB-227650 | Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X Web Management command injection (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrytechnical-description
- VDB-227650 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA) (opens in a new tab)signaturepermissions-required
- CVE-2023-2374 | CVE Analysis and Report (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
- Submit #114075 | Command injection at the web management interface of EdgeRouter-x(6) (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/leetsun/IoT/tree/main/EdgeRouterX/CI/6 (opens in a new tab)broken-linkexploitx_transferred
- https://vuldb.com/?id.227650 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.227650 (opens in a new tab)signaturepermissions-requiredx_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-2023-33864 (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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