CVE-2017-6896 describes a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the DIGISOL DG-HR1400 1.00.02 wireless router. An attacker can escalate from a user to an administrator by simply modifying a Base64-encoded session cookie. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, a public exploit (EDB-41633) exists, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.00.02CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:digisol:dg-hr1400_router_firmware:1.00.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.