CVE-2017-18849 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2017-18849?

CVE-2017-18849 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Netgear D6220 Firmware, published on 20 Apr 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by command injection. This affects D6220 before 1.0.0.26, D6400 before 1.0.0.60, D8500 before 1.0.3.29, R6250 before 1.0.4.12, R6400 before 1.01.24, R6400v2 before 1.0.2.30, R6700 before 1.0.1.22, R6900 before 1.0.1.22, R6900P before 1.0.0.56, R7000 before 1.0.9.4, R7000P before 1.0.0.56, R7100LG before 1.0.0.32, R7300DST before 1.0.0.54, R7900 before 1.0.1.18, R8000 before 1.0.3.44, R8300 before 1.0.2.100_1.0.82, and R8500 before 1.0.2.100_1.0.82.

Weakness: CWE-74

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-18849?

It affects 16 products.

Products include Netgear D6220 Firmware, Netgear D6400 Firmware, Netgear D8500 Firmware, Netgear R6250 Firmware, Netgear R6400 Firmware, Netgear R6700 Firmware and 10 more.

How do I fix CVE-2017-18849?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-18849 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2017-18849 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-18849 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Netgear D6220 Firmware

• CVE-2016-6277 NETGEAR Multiple Routers Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2021-45527 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.6
• CVE-2021-45610 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.6
• CVE-2021-45638 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.6
• CVE-2021-34982 NETGEAR Multiple Routers httpd Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability High 8.8

All Netgear D6220 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-cxhv-qfhw-63ww.