CVE-2018-17565 is a critical shell metacharacter injection vulnerability affecting Grandstream GXP16xx VoIP phones running firmware version 1.0.4.128. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary system commands and gain a root shell through the SSH configuration interface. With a CVSS score of 9.8, the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0.4.128CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:grandstream:gxp1610_firmware:1.0.4.128:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.4.128CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:grandstream:gxp1615_firmware:1.0.4.128:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.4.128CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:grandstream:gxp1620_firmware:1.0.4.128:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.4.128CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:grandstream:gxp1625_firmware:1.0.4.128:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.4.128CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:grandstream:gxp1628_firmware:1.0.4.128:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 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.