CVE-2014-8387

Eki 6340 Firmware vulnerability

CVSS

9.0

EPSS

30.9%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

cgi/utility.cgi in Advantech EKI-6340 2.05 Wi-Fi Mesh Access Point allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the pinghost parameter to ping.cgi.

Affected vendor

Advantech

Affected product

Eki 6340 Firmware

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

Published

2014-11-20

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 30.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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