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CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2018-6692

Wemo Insight Smart Plug Firmware vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
3.7%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libUPnPHndlr.so in Belkin Wemo Insight Smart Plug allows remote attackers to bypass local security protection via a crafted HTTP post packet.
Affected vendor
Belkin
Affected product
Wemo Insight Smart Plug Firmware
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2018-08-21

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 3.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-6692

  • Confirm whether Belkin Wemo Insight Smart Plug Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-6692.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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