Vulnerability record

CVE-2017-6334

NETGEAR DGN2200 Devices OS Command Injection Vulnerability

Severity: HighExploitation: Exploitation confirmedCISA KEV
What should I do?

This vulnerability is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: attackers are using it. If you run DGN2200 Devices, fix it now.

CISA required action: The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

US federal civilian agencies must remediate by Apr 15, 2022.

Patch status

No official fix confirmed yet

Until a fix ships, follow the vendor's mitigations and CISA's required action, limit exposure of affected systems, and watch this record for a patch.

Description

dnslookup.cgi on NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters in the host_name field of an HTTP POST request, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-6077.

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database. Official vulnerability data, reproduced as published.

Affected products

Products affected by this vulnerability, with versions and the source of each entry
ProductVendorSource
DGN2200 DevicesNETGEARKEV

Sources: KEV = CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Version details have not been published yet.

Intelligence timeline

Developments from the last 30 days, newest first.

  1. CVSS scoredUpdateKEV

    CVE-2017-6334 scored CVSS 8.8: NETGEAR DGN2200 Devices, NETGEAR DGN2200 Devices OS Command Injection Vulnerability

    CISA lists this as exploited in the wild. Unpatched DGN2200 Devices systems are exposed to active attacks now.

    Basis: NIST National Vulnerability Database

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References