CVE-2017-16260 is a critical stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Insteon Hub firmware version 1012. It occurs in the PubNub message handler when processing specially crafted commands sent to the "cc" channel, specifically within the s_auth command where an oversized password value overwrites a 32-byte buffer. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.9, indicating a critical risk with network access, low privileges, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While an authenticated HTTP request is required to trigger it, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1012CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:insteon:hub_firmware:1012:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 1.0 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.6 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.