CVE-2025-60692: linksys e1200_firmware Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-60692 is a high (CVSS 8.4) Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in linksys e1200_firmware. EPSS estimates a 0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 13-11-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-07-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the libshared.so library of Cisco Linksys E1200 v2 routers (Firmware E1200_v2.0.11.001_us.tar.gz). The functions get_mac_from_ip and get_ip_from_mac use sscanf with overly permissive "%100s" format specifiers to parse entries from /proc/net/arp into fixed-size buffers (v6: 50 bytes, v7 sub-arrays: 50 bytes). This allows local attackers controlling the contents of /proc/net/arp to overflow stack buffers, leading to memory corruption, denial of service, or potential arbitrary code execution.

• CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowA stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).