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CVE-2017-16253

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-16253 describes a high-severity buffer overflow vulnerability in the Insteon Hub 2245-222, specifically firmware version 1012, affecting its PubNub message handler. An authenticated attacker can exploit this by sending specially crafted commands to the 'cc' channel, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow that overwrites arbitrary data. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 8.1 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring authentication, and potentially resulting in high impact to integrity and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1012CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:insteon:hub_firmware:1012:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0108 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

talosintelligence.com / vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0483
ExploitThird Party Advisory