CVE-2017-18845 describes a critical vulnerability in specific NETGEAR R6700v2 and R6800 router firmware versions prior to 1.1.0.38, allowing for the disclosure of administrative credentials. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this local vulnerability (AV:L) enables an authenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact (C:H/I:H/A:H) with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.1.0.38CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netgear:r6700_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.1.0.38CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netgear:r6800_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/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.