Further compounding the risk, early firmware versions were susceptible to directory traversal attacks. By manipulating HTTP POST requests with sequences like .. (dot-dot), an attacker could bypass authentication to modify critical files or execute system commands on the device's underlying operating system (CVE-2004-2426). In some cases, this opened the door to arbitrary command execution, allowing an attacker to use shell metacharacters to run commands on the server, effectively taking full control of the device (CVE-2004-2425).
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