THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-19978
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-19978

Comfortel 1200 Ip Firmware vulnerability

CVSS
8.0
EPSS
4.1%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
A buffer overflow vulnerability in the DHCP and PPPOE configuration interface of the Auerswald COMfort 1200 IP phone 3.4.4.1-10589 allows a remote attacker (authenticated as simple user in the same network as the device) to trigger remote code execution via a POST request (ManufacturerName parameter) to the web server on the device. The web server is running with root privileges and the injected code will also run with root privileges.
Affected vendor
Auerswald
Affected product
Comfortel 1200 Ip Firmware
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2019-05-29

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-19978

  • Confirm whether Auerswald Comfortel 1200 Ip Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-19978.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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