CVE-2018-17240

Indoor Ip Camera Firmware vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

3.4%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

There is a memory dump vulnerability on Netwave IP camera devices at //proc/kcore that allows an unauthenticated attacker to exfiltrate sensitive information from the network configuration (e.g., username and password).

Affected vendor

Netwavepr

Affected product

Indoor Ip Camera Firmware

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory (Memory Leak)

Published

2022-06-10

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.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Netwavepr Indoor Ip Camera Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-17240.
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