Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-29228

Critical

Published: 23 December 2025

Published
23 December 2025
Modified
06 January 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0034 56.3th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Linksys E5600 V1.1.0.26 is vulnerable to command injection in the runtime.macClone function via the mc.ip parameter.

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

prevent

Directly mitigates command injection by requiring validation and sanitization of the unsanitized mc.ip parameter in the runtime.macClone function.

prevent

Enables timely identification, reporting, and patching of the specific input sanitization flaw in firmware V1.1.0.26 to remediate the vulnerability.

prevent

Enforces access control mechanisms to require authentication before allowing access to the vulnerable unauthenticated runtime.macClone endpoint.

Security SummaryAI

CVE-2025-29228 is a command injection vulnerability (CWE-77) affecting the Linksys E5600 router on firmware version V1.1.0.26. The issue occurs in the runtime.macClone function, where the mc.ip parameter fails to properly sanitize user input, enabling attackers to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands. Published on 2025-12-23, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), marking it as critical due to its severe potential impact.

Any unauthenticated attacker with network access can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation allows remote arbitrary command execution, resulting in high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, such as full device compromise, data theft, or further network pivoting.

Details on exploitation and potential mitigations are available in the referenced advisory at https://github.com/JZP018/Vuln/blob/main/linsys/E5600/CI_macClone_mc.ip/CI_macClone_mc.ip.md. No vendor patches or additional official remediation guidance are specified in the available information.

Details

CWE(s)

Affected Products

linksys
e5600 firmware
1.1.0.26

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1059.004 Unix Shell Execution
Adversaries may abuse Unix shell commands and scripts for execution.
Why these techniques?

CVE enables unauthenticated remote exploitation of a public-facing router web interface (T1190) via command injection for arbitrary Unix shell command execution (T1059.004).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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