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An attacker who gets a victim to load a malicious web page can run arbitrary code on the device.","severity":"critical","cvss":10.0,"epss":0.98288,"exploited":true,"exploited_at":"2022-03-25T00:00:00+00:00","products":[{"name":"NETGEAR Wireless Access Point (WAP) Devices","fixed":[],"affected":"","ecosystem":"vendor"}],"ecosystems":["vendor"],"tags":["exploited","infrastructure","netgear","network-appliance","self-hosted","wireless-access-point"],"not_affected_if":["firmware-updated","unaffected-model"],"how_to_check":"Identify NETGEAR WAP models in your network inventory and compare firmware versions against NETGEAR's advisory; unknown which firmware builds are affected from these sources.","fix":"Apply the firmware updates NETGEAR publishes for your WAP model (CISA required action: apply updates per vendor instructions); unknown which exact version is fixed from these sources.","status":"open","published_at":"2017-04-21T15:59:00+00:00","first_seen_at":"2026-10-23T19:11:52+00:00","triaged_at":"2026-10-23T21:21:58+00:00","updated_at":"2026-10-23T21:57:35+00:00","category":"infrastructure","confidence":0.7,"triage":{"at":"2026-10-23T21:21:58Z","model":"claude-haiku-5-5","output":{"fix":"Apply the firmware updates NETGEAR publishes for your WAP model (CISA required action: apply updates per vendor instructions); unknown which exact version is fixed from these sources.","reach":"network","impact":"high","summary":"Multiple NETGEAR wireless access point models pass web form input straight to their command-line interface without checks. 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