Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers Vulnerabilities
Cisco · Cisco Small Business RV Series Router Firmware
Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Cisco Small Business RV Series Router Firmware, affecting the RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 series routers, and one of them is a stack-based buffer overflow. An attacker with network access and no authentication or user interaction could exploit these flaws to execute arbitrary code or commands, elevate privileges, bypass authentication and authorization protections, fetch and run unsigned software, or cause a denial of service.
Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 Series Routers could allow an attacker to do any of the following: Execute arbitrary code Elevate privileges Execute arbitrary commands Bypass authentication and authorization protections Fetch and run unsigned software Cause denial of service (DoS) For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details section of this advisory.
- Exploited
- Yes, in VulnCheck KEV
- Reports
- 0
- Tactics
- 0/15
Exploitation timelineDated milestones for a CVE: when it was disclosed, when exploit code became public, when exploitation was confirmed, and when threat reports named it.
First seen exploited 3 years after disclosure. Public exploit code (Metasploit) was available 3 months before disclosure.
- Public exploit codeMetasploit3 mo before
- Disclosedday 0
- First seen exploitedVulnCheck KEV evidence+3 yrs
MITRE ATT&CKA public catalogue of the techniques attackers use, maintained by MITRE. Patchfirst uses it to describe what attackers do with a vulnerability. techniques
No techniques linkedNo ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.
What security researchers reported
Not named in any threat report yetAlso mentioned in 9 community threat pulses (AlienVault OTX)
Weaker evidencePulses are indicator collections that anyone can publish. A mention is not confirmation of exploitation.
- Update 10: Cybercriminals Leverage 66 Vulnerabilities to Target Global Systems2 Jul 2025
- NCSC Advisory - 18th Sept 2024 - PRC Botnet14 Jan 2025
- People's Republic of China-Linked Actors Compromise Routers and IoT Devices for Botnet Operations7 Jan 2025
- People's Republic of China-Linked Actors Compromise Routers and IoT Devices for Botnet Operations7 Jan 2025
- People's Republic of China-Linked Actors Compromise Routers and IoT Devices for Botnet Operations2 Oct 2024
- CSA-PRC-LINKED-ACTORS-BOTNET19 Sep 2024
- 3 more on OTX