CVE-2025-8816: Linksys RE6250/RE6300/RE6350/RE6500/RE7000/RE9000 setOpMode stack-based overflow

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-8816 is a high (CVSS 9.0) vulnerability in linksys re6250. EPSS estimates a 1.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 10-08-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 12-08-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability was determined in Linksys RE6250, RE6300, RE6350, RE6500, RE7000 and RE9000 up to 20250801. Affected is the function setOpMode of the file /goform/setOpMode. The manipulation of the argument ethConv leads to stack-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
• 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).