CVE-2018-17023 — 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

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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

Published Sep 13, 2018

8.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.61%

Description

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.61% 0.00614

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00614

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.61% (0.00614)	47.49th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Sep 20, 2026	0.61% (0.00614)	48.03th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 20, 2024	0.15% (0.00155)	52.27th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.16% (0.00156)	51.37th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.14% (0.00139)	48.41th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.13% (0.00127)	46.09th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.20% (0.00202)	56.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	0.52% (0.00523)	12.55th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	0.52% (0.00523)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (1)

https://github.com/PAGalaxyLab/VulInfo/blob/master/ASUS/csrf_bypass_referer/ASUS%20GT-AC5300%20csrf%20bypass%20referer.MD
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Link	Providers	Tags
https://github.com/PAGalaxyLab/VulInfo/blob/master/ASUS/csrf_bypass_referer/ASUS%20GT-AC5300%20csrf%20bypass%20referer.MD		x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 13, 2018

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Sep 13, 2018

Link CVE-2018-17023

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2018-17023

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2018-17023