CVE-2018-16201 affects Toshiba Home gateway models HEM-GW16A and HEM-GW26A, versions 1.2.9 and earlier, due to the use of hard-coded credentials. This vulnerability allows an attacker on the same network segment to gain administrative access to the device. With a CVSS v3.0 score of 8.8 (High), the attack requires adjacent network access (AV:A) with low complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N), leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.2.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:toshiba:hem-gw16a_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.2.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:toshiba:hem-gw26a_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.