Security News > 2025 > March > Unpatched Edimax Camera Flaw Exploited for Mirai Botnet Attacks Since Last Year
2025-03-17 13:12
An unpatched security flaw impacting the Edimax IC-7100 network camera is being exploited by threat actors to deliver Mirat botnet malware variants since at least May 2024. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-1316 (CVSS v4 score: 9.3), a critical operating system command injection flaw that an attacker could exploit to achieve remote code execution on susceptible devices by means of a
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-05 | CVE-2025-1316 | OS Command Injection vulnerability in Edimax Ic-7100 Firmware Edimax IC-7100 does not properly neutralize requests. | 9.8 |