THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-16929
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2017-16929

Claymore Dual Miner vulnerability

CVSS
8.1
EPSS
12.9%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
The remote management interface on the Claymore Dual GPU miner 10.1 is vulnerable to an authenticated directory traversal vulnerability exploited by issuing a specially crafted request, allowing a remote attacker to read/write arbitrary files. This can be exploited via ../ sequences in the pathname to miner_file or miner_getfile.
Affected vendor
Claymore Dual Miner Project
Affected product
Claymore Dual Miner
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-22 — Path Traversal
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2017-12-05

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 12.9% 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-2017-16929

  • Confirm whether Claymore Dual Miner Project Claymore Dual Miner is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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