CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2017-8116

Rut900 Firmware vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.5%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
The management interface for the Teltonika RUT9XX routers (aka LuCI) with firmware 00.03.265 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via shell metacharacters in the username parameter in a login request.
Affected vendor
Teltonika
Affected product
Rut900 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-78 — OS Command Injection
Published
2017-07-03

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 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-8116

  • Confirm whether Teltonika Rut900 Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-8116.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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