CVE-2018-17023 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability on ASUS GT-AC5300 routers with f

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability on ASUS GT-AC5300 routers with firmware through 3.0.0.4.384_32738 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the administrator password via a request to start_apply.htm.

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability on ASUS GT-AC5300 routers with firmware through 3.0.0.4.384_32738 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the administrator password via a request to start_apply.htm.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-09-13T19:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-16T17:07:54.660Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/PAGalaxyLab/VulInfo/blob/master/ASUS/csrf_bypass_referer/ASUS…