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CVE-2022-30525

99
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-30525 is a critical OS command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) affecting multiple Zyxel USG FLEX, ATP, and VPN series firewall firmware versions. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands on vulnerable devices by modifying specific files. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and an EPSS score indicating extremely high exploitability, this vulnerability poses a severe risk, enabling full compromise of affected systems. It is actively exploited in the wild, with public exploit code available in Metasploit and Nuclei, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.00, < 5.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:usg_flex_100w_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.00, < 5.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:usg_flex_200_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.00, <= 5.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:usg_flex_500_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.00, < 5.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:usg_flex_700_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.60, < 5.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:vpn100_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
99.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
100.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · May 16, 2022
Metasploit: Zyxel Firewall ZTP Unauthenticated Command Injection · Apr 28, 2022
Nuclei: CVE-2022-30525 · May 13, 2022
ExploitDB: EDB-50946 · Jun 3, 2022
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.9994 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
packetstormsecurity.com / files/167176/Zyxel-Remote-Command-Execution.html
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
packetstormsecurity.com / files/167182/Zyxel-Firewall-ZTP-Unauthenticated-Command-Injection.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
packetstormsecurity.com / files/167372/Zyxel-USG-FLEX-5.21-Command-Injection.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
packetstormsecurity.com / files/168202/Zyxel-Firewall-SUID-Binary-Privilege-Escalation.html
ExploitThird Party Advisory
zyxel.com / support/Zyxel-security-advisory-for-OS-command-injection-vulnerability-of-firewalls.shtml
Vendor Advisory