CVE-2016-6277
NETGEAR Multiple Routers: Remote Code Execution
As of , CVE-2016-6277 in NETGEAR Multiple Routers is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.
- Exploited
- Yes: CISA listed it on 7 March 2022
- US federal deadline
- 7 September 2022184 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
- Used in ransomware campaigns
- Not known to CISA
- EPSS score
- 0.99Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS when listed
- 0.88 on 7 March 2022EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
- Public exploit
- 1 Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries (2 verified)
- Fix
- No vendor link in CISA's entry
What CISA says to do
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA's required action
What the flaw is
NETGEAR confirmed multiple routers allow unauthenticated web pages to pass form input directly to the command-line interface, permitting remote code execution.
CISA's description
NETGEAR R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta, R6400 before 1.0.1.18.Beta, R6700 before 1.0.1.14.Beta, R6900, R7000 before 1.0.7.6.Beta, R7100LG before 1.0.0.28.Beta, R7300DST before 1.0.0.46.Beta, R7900 before 1.0.1.8.Beta, R8000 before 1.0.3.26.Beta, D6220, D6400, D7000, and possibly other routers allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the path info to cgi-bin/.
The CVE record's description, from mitre
- CVE published
- 14 December 2016
- Assigned by
- mitre
- CVSS
- 8.8 High (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
- CWE-352
- Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CISA SSVC, exploitation
- active
- CISA SSVC, automatable
- no
- CISA SSVC, technical impact
- total
Timeline
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 40889).
- The CVE record was published.
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 41598).
- CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- The US federal deadline to fix it.
Public exploits
Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.
- Metasploit: Netgear R7000 and R6400 cgi-bin Command Injectionexploit module, rank excellent
- Exploit-DB: Netgear R7000 / R6400 - 'cgi-bin' Command Injection (Metasploit)EDB-ID 41598, verified by Exploit-DB, 13 March 2017
- Exploit-DB: Netgear R7000 - Command InjectionEDB-ID 40889, verified by Exploit-DB, 7 December 2016
Read further
- CVE recordcve.org
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CISA's catalogcisa.gov
- EPSS for this CVEapi.first.org