Zyxel security advisory for local privilege escalation and authenticated directory traversal vulnerabilities of firewalls
CVE: CVE-2022-30526, CVE-2022-2030
Summary
Zyxel has released patches for products affected by local privilege escalation and authenticated directory traversal vulnerabilities. Users are advised to install them for optimal protection.
What are the vulnerabilities?
A privilege escalation vulnerability was identified in the CLI command of some firewall versions that could allow a local attacker to execute some OS commands with root privileges in some directories on a vulnerable device.
An authenticated directory traversal vulnerability caused by specific character sequences within an improperly sanitized URL was identified in some CGI programs of some firewall versions.
What versions are vulnerable—and what should you do?
After a thorough investigation, we’ve identified the vulnerable products for CVE-2022-30526 and CVE-2022-2030 that are within their vulnerability support period, with their firmware patches shown in the table below.
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Affected model |
Affected version |
Patch availability |
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CVE-2022-30526 |
CVE-2022-0230 |
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USG FLEX 100(W), 200, 500, 700 |
ZLD V4.50~V5.30 |
ZLD V4.50~V5.30 |
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USG FLEX 50(W) / USG20(W)-VPN |
ZLD V4.16~V5.30 |
ZLD V4.16~V5.30 |
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ATP series |
ZLD V4.32~V5.30 |
ZLD V4.32~V5.30 |
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VPN series |
ZLD V4.30~V5.30 |
ZLD V4.30~V5.30 |
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USG/ZyWALL |
ZLD V4.09~V4.72 |
ZLD V4.11~V4.72 |
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Acknowledgment
Thanks to the following security consultancies for reporting the issues to us:
- Rapid7 for CVE-2022-30526
- Maurizio Agazzini (HN Security) in collaboration with SSD Secure Disclosure for CVE-2022-2030
Revision history
2022-07-19: Initial release
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