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CVE-2022-48196

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-48196 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting several NETGEAR router models, including RAX40, RAX35, R6400v2, R6700v3, R6900P, R7000P, R7000, R7960P, and R8000P, in specific firmware versions. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as indicated by its CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical). While the vulnerability has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 80/100, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.2.60CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:rax40_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.0.2.60CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:rax35_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.0.4.122CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:r6400v2_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.0.4.122CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:r6700v3_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.3.3.152CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:r6900p_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.4HIGH

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0094 is in the 42nd percentile among its peer group of 36,833 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

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

kb.netgear.com / 000065495/Security-Advisory-for-Pre-Authentication-Buffer-Overflow-on-Some-Routers-PSV-2019-0208
PatchVendor Advisory
bleepingcomputer.com / news/security/netgear-warns-users-to-patch-recently-fixed-wifi-router-bug
PatchThird Party Advisory