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CVE-2018-21225

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-21225 describes a command injection vulnerability in various NETGEAR devices, including models like the D7000, R7000, and R8500, affecting specific firmware versions. This flaw allows an authenticated user to execute arbitrary commands on the device. With a CVSS score of 6.8 (Medium), the vulnerability requires high privileges (PR:H) but can be exploited over the network (AV:A) with low attack complexity (AC:L), potentially leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.1.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:d7800_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.0.1.60CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:d7000_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.0.3.39CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:d8500_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.0.1.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:r6700_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.2.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:r6700_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0085 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 399 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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 / 000055112/Security-Advisory-for-Post-Authentication-Command-Injection-on-Some-Routers-and-Gateways-PSV-2017-2160
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