Cyber Posture

CVE-2024-38666

CriticalPublic PoC

Published: 14 January 2025

Published
14 January 2025
Modified
21 August 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0585 90.6th percentile
Risk Priority 22 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

An external config control vulnerability exists in the openvpn.cgi openvpn_client_setup() functionality of Wavlink AC3000 M33A8.V5030.210505. A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to arbitrary command execution. An attacker can make an authenticated HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.

Security Summary

CVE-2024-38666 is an external config control vulnerability, classified under CWE-15, affecting the openvpn.cgi openvpn_client_setup() functionality in the Wavlink AC3000 router on firmware version M33A8.V5030.210505. The issue enables a specially crafted HTTP request to result in arbitrary command execution on the device.

Exploitation requires an authenticated attacker with high privileges (PR:H), who can send the malicious HTTP request over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.1 and a changed scope (S:C), allowing high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H) through arbitrary command execution.

Mitigation guidance is available in the Talos Intelligence advisory at https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2051.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-15

Affected Products

wavlink
wl-wn533a8 firmware
m33a8.v5030.210505

References