High
Security advisory
A remote code execution vulnerability is identified in FruityWifi through 2.4. Due to improperly escaped shell metacharacters obtained from the POST request at the page_config_adv.php page, it is possible to perform remote code execution by an authenticated attacker. This is similar to CVE-2018-17317.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-24849
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A remote code execution vulnerability is identified in FruityWifi through 2.4. Due to improperly escaped shell metacharacters obtained from the POST request at the page_config_adv.php page, it is possible to perform remote code execution by an authenticated attacker. This is similar to CVE-2018-17317.
osv:CVE-2020-24849
Complete source record
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