CVE-2018-16217 — The network diagnostic function (ping) in the Yeahlink Ultra-elegant IP Phone SI

The network diagnostic function (ping) in the Yeahlink Ultra-elegant IP Phone SIP-T41P (firmware 66.83.0.35) allows a remote authenticated attacker to trigger OS commands or open a reverse shell via command injection.

01What is this vulnerability?

The network diagnostic function (ping) in the Yeahlink Ultra-elegant IP Phone SIP-T41P (firmware 66.83.0.35) allows a remote authenticated attacker to trigger OS commands or open a reverse shell via command injection.

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: 2019-05-29T17:52:30.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:17:38.379Z

09References

• www.sit.fraunhofer.de — https://www.sit.fraunhofer.de/de/securitytestlab/
• www.sit.fraunhofer.de — https://www.sit.fraunhofer.de/fileadmin/dokumente/CVE/Advisory_Yealink_Ultra-ele…