CVE-2018-3917 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Samsung SmartThings Hub STH-ETH-250 devices running firmware version 0.20.17. An attacker can trigger this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted HTTP request with an arbitrarily long "region" value, causing the video-core process to overflow a 16-byte buffer during SQLite database field extraction. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.9 (CRITICAL), indicating a high potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and can be exploited remotely with low privileges and no user interaction. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, suggesting awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.20.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:sth-eth-250_firmware:0.20.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 1.0 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.6 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.