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CVE-2013-4656

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

Symlink Traversal vulnerability in ASUS RT-AC66U and RT-N56U due to misconfiguration in the SMB service.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (2)

Asus — Rt-ac66u FirmwareAsus — Rt-n56u Firmware

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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