CVE-2018-21161 describes a critical security misconfiguration vulnerability affecting specific NETGEAR D7800, R7800, and R9000 router firmware versions. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve complete compromise (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) over affected devices via a low-complexity network attack. Despite its high severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE. Organizations using the affected NETGEAR devices should prioritize patching to mitigate this critical risk.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.0.1.34CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netgear:d7800_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.0.2.46CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netgear:r7800_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.0.3.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netgear:r9000_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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.