CVE-2017-18836 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting several NETGEAR M4300 and M4200 series switches running firmware versions prior to 12.0.2.15. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.2 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low attack complexity, requiring no privileges or user interaction, and resulting in high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE. While the EPSS score is low, organizations using the affected devices should still consider patching to mitigate the risk of service disruption.
| 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:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.