CVE-2021-35408 is an unauthenticated OS command injection vulnerability in the Prolink PRC2402M router, observed on firmware version 20190909. The flaw is in the /cgi-bin/qos.cgi CGI handler. When the page parameter is set to qos_sta, qos.cgi invokes qos_sta_settings, which reads the user-controlled cli_list and cli_num parameters and uses sprintf to construct the shell command '/sbin/sta_qos.sh setup %s %s'. That command string is then passed to system without sufficient input validation or sanitization. Because attacker-controlled input is incorporated directly into a shell command, a remote attacker can submit a crafted HTTP POST request to /cgi-bin/qos.cgi and execute arbitrary commands on the device.
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A command injection vulnerability affecting the PROLiNK PRC2402M router.
An unauthenticated command injection vulnerability in the Prolink PRC2402M router's qos.cgi script that allows arbitrary code execution as root.
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