CVE-2017-18826 describes a vertical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting several NETGEAR M4300 and M4200 series switches running firmware versions prior to 12.0.2.15. This flaw allows a low-privileged local attacker to gain elevated privileges, potentially leading to full compromise of the device. With a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.8 (High), the vulnerability is easily exploitable with low attack complexity and no user interaction required, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, indicating no known active exploitation. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 12.0.2.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netgear:m4300-28g_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 12.0.2.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netgear:m4300-52g_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 12.0.2.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netgear:m4300-28g-poe\+_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 12.0.2.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netgear:m4300-52g-poe\+_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 12.0.2.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netgear:m4300-8x8f_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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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.