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CVE-2019-1653

Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Routers Information Disclosure Vulnerability

KEVEXPLOIT ×2 ✓HIGH 7.5EPSS 99.9%

Does this matter?

Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 3 May 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to retrieve sensitive information. The vulnerability is due to improper access controls for URLs. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting to an affected device via HTTP or HTTPS and requesting specific URLs. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to download the router configuration or detailed diagnostic information. Cisco has released firmware updates that address this vulnerability.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
99.88% probability · 100th percentile
Public exploits
2 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 28 January 2019
CISA KEV
Listed 3 November 2021 · due 3 May 2022
Weakness
CWE-284
Affected
cisco/rv320 firmware · cisco/rv325 firmware
Source
psirt@cisco.com
EPSS trend
0%50%100%26 October 2026: 99.88%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 99.9% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

CISA notes

Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1653

Public exploits (2)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-46655source ↗Cisco RV320 and RV325 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)hardware · Metasploitremote3 April 2019yes
EDB-46262source ↗Cisco RV300 / RV320 - Information Disclosurehardware · Harom Ramoswebapps28 January 2019no

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.