CVE-2022-43971: Linksys WUMC710 Firmware

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An arbitrary code exection vulnerability exists in Linksys WUMC710 Wireless-AC Universal Media Connector with firmware <= 1.0.02 (build3). The do_setNTP function within the httpd binary uses unvalidated user input in the construction of a system command. An authenticated attacker with administrator privileges can leverage this vulnerability over the network via a malicious GET or POST request to /setNTP.cgi to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system as root.

Affected products

• Linksys WUMC710 Firmware: before 1.0.02 (fixed in 1.0.02); version 1.0.02 only

Published 2023-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.