CVE-2017-18794 — Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by command injection

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by command injection. This affects R6300v2 before 1.0.4.8_10.0.77, R6400 before 1.0.1.24, R6700 before 1.0.1.26, R7000 before 1.0.9.10, R7100LG before 1.0.0.32, R7900 before 1.0.1.18, R8000 before 1.0.3.54, R8500 before 1.0.2.100, and D6100 be

01What is this vulnerability?

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by command injection. This affects R6300v2 before 1.0.4.8_10.0.77, R6400 before 1.0.1.24, R6700 before 1.0.1.26, R7000 before 1.0.9.10, R7100LG before 1.0.0.32, R7900 before 1.0.1.18, R8000 before 1.0.3.54, R8500 before 1.0.2.100, and D6100 before 1.0.0.50_0.0.50.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-04-21T18:41:49.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T21:37:43.947Z

09References

• kb.netgear.com — https://kb.netgear.com/000049368/Security-Advisory-for-Command-Injection-Vulnera…