CVE-2016-11022

Prosafe Wc9500 Firmware vulnerability

CVSS

7.2

EPSS

3.2%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

NETGEAR Prosafe WC9500 5.1.0.17, WC7600 5.1.0.17, and WC7520 2.5.0.35 devices allow a remote attacker to execute code with root privileges via shell metacharacters in the reqMethod parameter to login_handler.php.

Affected vendor

Netgear

Affected product

Prosafe Wc9500 Firmware

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

Published

2020-03-23

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Netgear Prosafe Wc9500 Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-11022.
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