CVE-2023-25717 — Ruckus Smartzone Firmware
CRITICALCVE-2023-25717 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) Code Injection vulnerability in commscope ruckus smartzone firmware. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-05-12) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Ruckus Wireless Admin through 10.4 allows Remote Code Execution via an unauthenticated HTTP GET Request, as demonstrated by a /forms/doLogin?login_username=admin&password=password$(curl substring.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2023-05-12. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2023-06-02.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2023-25717.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2023-25717 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 394,803 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Ruckus Wireless Admin through 10.4 allows Remote Code Execution via an unauthenticated HTTP GET Request, as demonstrated by a /forms/doLogin?login_username=admin&password=password$(curl substring.
Affected Products
ruckus smartzone firmwarecommscoperuckus wireless adminruckuswirelesssmartzone apruckuswirelessResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every commscope ruckus smartzone firmware deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Fix
Apply the commscope ruckus smartzone firmware security patch or hotfix for CVE-2023-25717 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.
Workarounds
Stop passing untrusted input into the interpreter or shell: call the affected binary with an argument array rather than a composed command string, reject anything outside a strict allowlist of expected values, and run the component under an account that cannot reach beyond the work it legitimately does. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2023-25717
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2023-25717 -u https://target- Template
- Ruckus Wireless Admin - Remote Code Execution
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Remote code execution vulnerability in Ruckus Wireless Admin allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
- Remediation
- Apply the latest security patches and updates provided by Ruckus Wireless to mitigate the vulnerability.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (parthmalhotra, pdresearch), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2023-25717 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.