Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 16, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2020-7982
CVE-2020-7982
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenWrt 18.06.0 to 18.06.6 and 19.07.0, and LEDE 17.01.0 to 17.01.7. A bug in the fork of the opkg package manager before 2020-01-25 prevents correct parsing of embedded checksums in the signed repository index, allowing a man-in-the-middle attacker to inject arbitrary package payloads (which are installed without verification).
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Affected products
3- OpenWrt/OpenWrtdescription
- Range: 17.01.0-17.01.7
Patches
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References
4- arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/openwrt-is-vulnerable-to-attacks-that-execute-malicious-code/mitrex_refsource_MISC
- blog.forallsecure.com/uncovering-openwrt-remote-code-execution-cve-2020-7982mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commits/mastermitrex_refsource_MISC
- openwrt.org/advisory/2020-01-31-1mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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