Zyxel fixes a critical bug in its business firewall and VPN devices

Zyxel issued security updates for a critical vulnerability that affects some of its business firewall and VPN devices.

Networking equipment vendor Zyxel has pushed security updates for a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-0342 (CVSS 9.8), that affects some of its business firewall and VPN products. The vulnerability can be exploited to take control of the devices.

“Zyxel has released patches for products affected by the authentication bypass vulnerability. Users are advised to install them for optimal protection.” reads the advisory published by the company. “An authentication bypass vulnerability caused by the lack of a proper access control mechanism has been found in the CGI program of some firewall versions. The flaw could allow an attacker to bypass the authentication and obtain administrative access of the device”

The following versions are affected by the vulnerability:

Affected series	Affected firmware	Patch availability
USG/ZyWALL	ZLD V4.20 through ZLD V4.70	ZLD V4.71
USG FLEX	ZLD V4.50 through ZLD V5.20	ZLD V5.21 Patch 1
ATP	ZLD V4.32 through ZLD V5.20	ZLD V5.21 Patch 1
VPN	ZLD V4.30 through ZLD V5.20	ZLD V5.21
NSG	V1.20 through V1.33 Patch 4	Hotfix V1.33p4_WK11* available now Standard patch V1.33 Patch 5 in May 2022

The vulnerability was reported by Alessandro Sgreccia from Tecnical Service Srl and Roberto Garcia H and Victor Garcia R from Innotec Security.

The vendor is recommending customers to install the firmware updates for optimal protection.

The good news is that the vendor has no evidence that the vulnerability has been exploited in attacks in the wild.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zyxel)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.