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CVE-2025-52688

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject commands with root privileges on the access point, potentially leading to the loss of confidentiality, integrity, availability, and full control of the access point.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 37.1%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 37.1%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject commands with root privileges on the access point, potentially leading to the loss of confidentiality, integrity, availability, and full control of the access point.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
37.12% probability · 99th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-77
Source
5f57b9bf-260d-4433-bf07-b6a79e9bb7d4
EPSS trend
0%20%40%6 October 2026: 28.84%17 October 2026: 36.27%26 October 2026: 37.12%6 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS moved from 28.8% on 6 October 2026 to 37.1% on 26 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

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