Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Routers Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to retrieve sensitive information. The vulnerability is due to improper access controls for URLs. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting to an affected device via HTTP or HTTPS and requesting specific URLs. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to download the router configuration or detailed diagnostic information. Cisco has released firmware updates that address this vulnerability.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

99.9% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• CWE-284 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-284 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Cisco · Cisco Small Business RV Series Router Firmware

  • affected n/a

What to do

Exploitation: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.

References (16)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx0RQJDlGbY (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://badpackets.net/over-9000-cisco-rv320-rv325-routers-vulnerable-to-cve-2019-1653/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 20190123 Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Routers Information Disclosure Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
• 106732 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 46262 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• 20190327 [RT-SA-2019-004] Cisco RV320 Unauthenticated Diagnostic Data Retrieval (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• 20190327 [RT-SA-2019-003] Cisco RV320 Unauthenticated Configuration Export (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• 20190327 [RT-SA-2019-004] Cisco RV320 Unauthenticated Diagnostic Data Retrieval (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20190327 [RT-SA-2019-003] Cisco RV320 Unauthenticated Configuration Export (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152260/Cisco-RV320-Unauthenticated-Configuration-Export.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152261/Cisco-RV320-Unauthenticated-Diagnostic-Data-Retrieval.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152305/Cisco-RV320-RV325-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 46655 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-are-going-after-cisco-rv320rv325-routers-using-a-new-exploit/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://threatpost.com/scans-cisco-routers-code-execution/141218/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-1653 (opens in a new tab)government-resource

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 21 Oct 2025, 23:45 UTC.