CVE-2020-11549 — An issue was discovered on NETGEAR Orbi Tri-Band Business WiFi Add-on Satellite

An issue was discovered on NETGEAR Orbi Tri-Band Business WiFi Add-on Satellite (SRS60) AC3000 V2.5.1.106, Outdoor Satellite (RBS50Y) V2.5.1.106, and Pro Tri-Band Business WiFi Router (SRR60) AC3000 V2.5.1.106. The root account has the same password as the Web-admin component. Th

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered on NETGEAR Orbi Tri-Band Business WiFi Add-on Satellite (SRS60) AC3000 V2.5.1.106, Outdoor Satellite (RBS50Y) V2.5.1.106, and Pro Tri-Band Business WiFi Router (SRR60) AC3000 V2.5.1.106. The root account has the same password as the Web-admin component. Thus, by exploiting CVE-2020-11551, it is possible to achieve remote code execution with root privileges on the embedded…

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

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-05-18T15:47:26.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T11:35:13.341Z

09References

• www.modzero.com — https://www.modzero.com/advisories/MZ-20-02-Netgear-Orbi-Pro-Security.txt
• www.modzero.com — https://www.modzero.com/modlog/archives/2020/05/18/how_netgear_meshed_up_wifi_fo…
• github.com — https://github.com/modzero/MZ-20-02-NETGEAR-Orbi-Security