CVE-2017-14459: Moxa Awk-3131a Firmware

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 12.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable OS Command Injection vulnerability exists in the Telnet, SSH, and console login functionality of Moxa AWK-3131A Industrial IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless AP/bridge/client in firmware versions 1.4 to 1.7 (current). An attacker can inject commands via the username parameter of several services (SSH, Telnet, console), resulting in remote, unauthenticated, root-level operating system command execution.

Affected products

• Moxa Awk-3131a Firmware: version 1.4 only; version 1.5 only; version 1.6 only; version 1.7 only

Published 2018-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.