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CVE-2017-18766

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-18766 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting certain NETGEAR DST6501 and WNR2000v2 devices, allowing an unauthenticated attacker on the adjacent network to read arbitrary files. The CVSS score of 6.5 indicates a high impact on confidentiality with no user interaction required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit or Nuclei. This vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting low public awareness.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.1.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:dst6501_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.2.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:wnr2000_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0053 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 1,802 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

kb.netgear.com / 000051479/Security-Advisory-for-Arbitrary-File-Read-on-DST6501-and-WNR2000v2-PSV-2017-0425
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