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When uploading a firmware image to a Netgear Nighthawk Wifi6 Router (RAX30), a hidden “forceFWUpdate” parameter may be provided to force the upgrade to complete and bypass certain validation checks

Published Mar 15, 2023

Description

When uploading a firmware image to a Netgear Nighthawk Wifi6 Router (RAX30), a hidden “forceFWUpdate” parameter may be provided to force the upgrade to complete and bypass certain validation checks. End users can use this to upload modified, unofficial, and potentially malicious firmware to the device.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-434

Unrestricted Upload of File

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner tenable
Published Mar 15, 2023
Updated Feb 27, 2025
Reserved Mar 14, 2023
Link CVE-2023-28337

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Feb 27, 2025

NVD

Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2023-28337

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner tenable
Published Mar 15, 2023
Updated Feb 27, 2025
Link EUVD-2023-32035

GitHub

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