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CVE-2018-21138

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-21138 describes a high-severity vulnerability in certain NETGEAR D3600 and D6000 devices, specifically firmware versions prior to 1.0.0.76, due to incorrect security configuration. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), indicating it can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker over the adjacent network with low complexity, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.0.76CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:d3600_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.0.0.76CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:d6000_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0073 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 1,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

kb.netgear.com / 000060222/Security-Advisory-for-Security-Misconfiguration-on-Some-Routers-PSV-2018-0098
Vendor Advisory