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CVE-2025-5438

A vulnerability was found in Linksys RE6500, RE6250, RE6300, RE6350, RE7000 and RE9000 1.0.013.001/1.0.04.001/1.0.04.002/1.1.05.003/1.2.07.001.

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 24.5%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 24.5%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

A vulnerability was found in Linksys RE6500, RE6250, RE6300, RE6350, RE7000 and RE9000 1.0.013.001/1.0.04.001/1.0.04.002/1.1.05.003/1.2.07.001. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function WPS of the file /goform/WPS. The manipulation of the argument PIN leads to command injection. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

CVSS 4.0
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS
24.51% probability · 98th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-74, CWE-77
Affected
linksys/re9000 firmware · linksys/re6250 firmware · linksys/re6300 firmware · linksys/re6350 firmware · linksys/re7000 firmware · linksys/re6500 firmware
Source
cna@vuldb.com
EPSS trend
0%15%30%6 October 2026: 25.67%29 October 2026: 24.51%2 November 2026: 24.51%6 October 20262 November 2026

EPSS moved from 25.7% on 6 October 2026 to 24.5% on 2 November 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.