CVE-2018-7539 is a critical path traversal vulnerability affecting Appear TV XC5000 and XC5100 devices running firmware 3.26.217, allowing unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary OS files via specially crafted HTTP requests to the Maintenance Center on TCP/8088. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, potentially leading to a full device compromise. Despite its severity and high FAUCET Risk Score, there is currently no public exploit code available, it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.26.217CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:appeartv:xc5000_firmware:3.26.217:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.26.217CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:appeartv:xc5100_firmware:3.26.217:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.