{"id":"CVE-2020-7982","details":"An issue was discovered in OpenWrt 18.06.0 to 18.06.6 and 19.07.0, and LEDE 17.01.0 to 17.01.7. A bug in the fork of the opkg package manager before 2020-01-25 prevents correct parsing of embedded checksums in the signed repository index, allowing a man-in-the-middle attacker to inject arbitrary package payloads (which are installed without verification).","modified":"2025-11-14T11:08:48.706308Z","published":"2020-03-16T22:15:14.667Z","references":[{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/openwrt-is-vulnerable-to-attacks-that-execute-malicious-code/"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://blog.forallsecure.com/uncovering-openwrt-remote-code-execution-cve-2020-7982"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commits/master"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://openwrt.org/advisory/2020-01-31-1"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt","events":[{"introduced":"03b693064b6ad85ce9c57ab0226b986b09c8eb05"},{"fixed":"1b5c116233a8c9421e97a1336bcf7cb3d42eca7d"}]}],"versions":["v18.06.0","v18.06.1","v18.06.2","v18.06.3","v18.06.4","v18.06.5","v18.06.6"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-7982.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}