CVE-2017-18837 describes a vertical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting several NETGEAR M4300 and M4200 series switches running firmware versions prior to 12.0.2.15. This allows a low-privileged attacker to gain higher privileges on the device. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.8 (High), indicating that it is easily exploitable locally with low attack complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, suggesting it is not actively exploited in the wild. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal, consistent with the majority of reported vulnerabilities.
| 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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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.