CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2014-7279

Konke Smart Plug Firmware vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
11.7%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
The Konke Smart Plug K does not require authentication for TELNET sessions, which allows remote attackers to obtain "equipment management authority" via TCP traffic to port 23.
Affected vendor
Kankunit
Affected product
Konke Smart Plug Firmware
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Published
2017-03-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-7279

  • Confirm whether Kankunit Konke Smart Plug Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-7279.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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