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Is CVE-2018-14558 being exploited?

Confirmed exploited in the wild

CISA has evidence of active exploitation. This is not theoretical risk — someone has already used it against someone.

Tenda AC7, AC9, and AC10 Routers Command Injection Vulnerability

Tenda · AC7, AC9, and AC10 Routers

CVSS 9.8 EPSS 9% no public exploit indexed Fix deadline passed 3 May 2022

What it is

Tenda AC7, AC9, and AC10 devices contain a command injection vulnerability due to the "formsetUsbUnload" function executes a dosystemCmd function with untrusted input. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to execute OS commands via a crafted goform/setUsbUnload request.

Why we say that

  • CISA's federal remediation deadline (2022-05-03) has passed
  • CVSS 9.8 critical
  • Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue

Every line above comes from a named public source. Where the evidence is thin, we say so rather than inventing confidence — see methodology.

What to do

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What it costs when this goes wrong

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