CVEs-PoC/2018/CVE-2018-5999.md

### [CVE-2018-5999](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5999)
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### Description

An issue was discovered in AsusWRT before 3.0.0.4.384_10007. In the handle_request function in router/httpd/httpd.c, processing of POST requests continues even if authentication fails.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/pedrib/PoC/blob/master/advisories/asuswrt-lan-rce.txt
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pedrib/PoC/master/exploits/metasploit/asuswrt_lan_rce.rb
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43881/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44176/

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.