A vulnerability has been found in Netgear R6900P and R7000P 1.3.3.154 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function sub_16C4C of the component HTTP Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument Host leads to buffer overflow.

This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-12988. The attack can be launched remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

It is recommended to apply restrictive firewalling.

The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.