CVE-2020-15498: ASUS Rt-AC1900P Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered on ASUS RT-AC1900P routers before 3.0.0.4.385_20253. The router accepts an arbitrary server certificate for a firmware update. The culprit is the --no-check-certificate option passed to wget tool used to download firmware update files.

Affected products

• ASUS Rt-AC1900P Firmware: before 3.0.0.4.385.20253 (fixed in 3.0.0.4.385.20253)

Published 2020-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.