CVE-2018-5796: Extremewireless Wing

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Extreme Networks ExtremeWireless WiNG 5.x before 5.8.6.9 and 5.9.x before 5.9.1.3. There is a Hidden Root Shell by entering the administrator password in conjunction with the 'service start-shell' CLI command.

Affected products

• Extremewireless Wing: from 5.0, before 5.8.6.9 (fixed in 5.8.6.9); from 5.9.0, before 5.9.1.3 (fixed in 5.9.1.3)

Published 2018-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.