Zyxel security advisory for XSS vulnerability and post-authentication command injection vulnerability in firewalls

CVE: CVE-2023-27990, CVE-2023-27991

Summary

Zyxel has released patches for some firewalls affected by a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability and a post-authentication command injection vulnerability. Users are advised to install them for optimal protection.

What are the vulnerabilities?

CVE-2023-27990

The XSS vulnerability in some firewall versions could allow an authenticated attacker with administrator privileges to store malicious scripts in a vulnerable device. A successful XSS attack could then result in the stored malicious scripts being executed when the user visits the Logs page of the GUI on the device.

CVE-2023-27991

The post-authentication command injection vulnerability in the CLI command of some firewall versions could allow an authenticated attacker to execute some OS commands remotely. Note that WAN access is disabled by default on the firewall devices.

What versions are vulnerable—and what should you do?

After a thorough investigation, we’ve identified the vulnerable products that are within their vulnerability support period and released patches to address the vulnerability, as shown in the table below.