CVE-2018-7933 is a path traversal vulnerability affecting Huawei HiRouter-CD20 and WS5200 home gateway products with firmware versions prior to 1.9.6. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into installing a malicious APK plugin, which can then overwrite arbitrary device files due to insufficient validation during plugin installation. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or privilege escalation. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
< hirouter-cd20-10_1.9.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:hirouter-cd20_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< ws5200-10_1.9.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:ws5200_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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.