Nighthawk X10 R9000 FirmwareOperating system · Netgear

CVE-2019-12510

CRITICAL · 9.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2020-02-24
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 1.0.4.26 or later.
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Public exploit Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
In NETGEAR Nighthawk X10-R900 prior to 1.0.4.26, an attacker may bypass all authentication checks on the device's "NETGEAR Genie" SOAP API ("/soap/server_sa") by supplying a malicious X-Forwarded-For header of the device's LAN IP address (192.168.1.1) in every request. As a result, an attacker may modify almost all of the device's settings and view various configuration settings.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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NVD · CPE data
Nighthawk X10 R9000 FirmwareOperating system
Affected:< 1.0.4.26

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 1.0.4.26 or later
Fixed in 1.0.4.26
Recommended fix High confidence

Nighthawk X10 R9000 Firmware 1.0.4.26 or later

  1. Log into the NETGEAR Nighthawk X10 R9000 router web interface
  2. Navigate to Administration > Firmware Update or similar section
  3. Check the current firmware version under Router Info or Advanced settings
  4. If the firmware version is below 1.0.4.26, download the latest firmware from NETGEAR's official support website (support.netgear.com)
  5. Upload the firmware file and wait for the update to complete
  6. After reboot, verify the firmware version is 1.0.4.26 or higher
Caveat Firmware updates typically don't introduce breaking changes but always backup configuration before updating

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