CVE-2012-6297 describes a command injection vulnerability in DD-WRT 24-sp2, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands through specially crafted configuration values containing shell meta-characters. This vulnerability is triggered via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), leading to a high-severity impact, including potential Denial of Service. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), it requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and no authentication (PR:N), enabling significant confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it lacks significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
24CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:dd-wrt:dd-wrt:24:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.