How severe is CVE-2016-6277?

CVE-2016-6277 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 99.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2016-6277: NETGEAR Multiple Routers Remote Code Execution

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

NETGEAR Multiple Routers Remote Code Execution Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-07

Remediation due

2022-09-07

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6277

Description

NETGEAR R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta, R6400 before 1.0.1.18.Beta, R6700 before 1.0.1.14.Beta, R6900, R7000 before 1.0.7.6.Beta, R7100LG before 1.0.0.28.Beta, R7300DST before 1.0.0.46.Beta, R7900 before 1.0.1.8.Beta, R8000 before 1.0.3.26.Beta, D6220, D6400, D7000, and possibly other routers allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the path info to cgi-bin/.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

8 Links

Exploits & PoCs

Third-party advisories

VU#582384

Vulnerability databases

94819

Other references

Record Details

Published

2016-12-14

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

mitre

Credited to

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