ASUS has recently released a security advisory in which several ASUS critical router vulnerabilities have been fixed. The vulnerabilities were found to affect multiple ASUS routers with CVEs.
The company has recommended its users upgrade to the latest version of firmware to fix these router vulnerabilities.
CVE(s) of ASUS critical Router Vulnerabilities:
ASUS has fixed around 9 CVEs, as reported in the security advisory. The recent one was found to be CVE-2023-28702, and the oldest one was CVE-2018-1160.
| CVE | CVSS Score | CVSS Vector | Description |
| CVE-2023-28702 | 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Command Injection due to unsanitized parameters in specific web URLs |
| CVE-2023-28703 | 7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Out of Bounds Write due to insufficient validation of network packet header |
| CVE-2023-31195 | N/A | N/A | Man-In-the-Middle attack due to insecure Cookie attribute |
| CVE-2022-46871 | 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Outdated Library (libusrsctp) exploitation |
| CVE-2022-38105 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N | Out-of-bounds read leads to denial of service |
| CVE-2022-35401 | 8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Authentication bypass due to expired key |
| CVE-2018-1160 | 9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Out of bounds write in dsi_opensess.c in Netatalk leads to arbitrary code execution |
| CVE-2022-38393 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | Out-of-bounds read leads to denial of service |
| CVE-2022-26376 | 9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Bounds writing leads to memory corruption |
Affected Products:
The list of routers affected by these CVE(s) includes,
- GT6
- GT-AXE16000
- GT-AXE11000 PRO
- GT-AXE11000
- GT-AX6000
- GT-AX11000
- GS-AX5400
- GS-AX3000
- ZenWiFi XT9
- ZenWiFi XT8
- ZenWiFi XT8_V2
- RT-AX86U PRO
- RT-AX86U
- RT-AX86S
- RT-AX82U
- RT-AX58U
- RT-AX3000
- TUF-AX6000
- TUF-AX5400
ASUS has recommended all of its users patch their routers to prevent attackers.
If upgrading is not required or might affect your configurations, turning off the vulnerable services is recommended.
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