THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-18378
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2017-18378

Readynas Surveillance Firmware vulnerability

CVSS
8.4
EPSS
8.2%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
In NETGEAR ReadyNAS Surveillance before 1.4.3-17 x86 and before 1.1.4-7 ARM, $_GET['uploaddir'] is not escaped and is passed to system() through $tmp_upload_dir, leading to upgrade_handle.php?cmd=writeuploaddir remote command execution.
Affected vendor
Netgear
Affected product
Readynas Surveillance Firmware
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-06-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, 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 8.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-18378

  • Confirm whether Netgear Readynas Surveillance Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-18378.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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