CVE-2018-5265: UI Edgeos

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ubiquiti EdgeOS 1.9.1 on EdgeRouter Lite devices allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with admin credentials, because /opt/vyatta/share/vyatta-cfg/templates/system/static-host-mapping/host-name/node.def does not sanitize the 'alias' or 'ips' parameter for shell metacharacters.

Affected products

• UI Edgeos: version 1.9.1 only

Published 2019-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.