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Zyxel Firewall: CVE-2022-30526: Privilege Escalation

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Zyxel Firewall: CVE-2022-30526: Privilege Escalation

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/19/2022
Created
08/29/2022
Added
07/19/2022
Modified
07/19/2022

Description

Rapid7 discovered and reported a vulnerability affecting Zyxel firewalls supporting Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP), which includes the ATP series, VPN series, and the USG FLEX series (including USG20-VPN and USG20W-VPN). The vulnerability, assigned CVE-2022-30525, allows an unauthenticated and remote attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution as `nobody` on the affected device.

Solution(s)

  • zyxel-firewall-upgrade-latest

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