CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2025-3665 — A vulnerability has been found in TOTOLINK A3700R 9.1.2u.5822_B20200513 and classified as critical
A vulnerability has been found in TOTOLINK A3700R 9.1.2u.5822_B20200513 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function setSmartQosCfg of the file /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.9 (4.0)
- Published
- 2025-04-16
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-266, CWE-284
Affected products
- totolink / a3700r_firmware / 9.1.2u.5822_b20200513
Matched remediation archetype
Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management
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Check exposure
- Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
- Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
- Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.
Remediate safely
- Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
- Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
- Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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