How severe is CVE-2017-6334?

CVE-2017-6334 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 72.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2017-6334: NETGEAR DGN2200 Devices OS Command Injection

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

NETGEAR DGN2200 Devices OS Command Injection Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-25

Remediation due

2022-04-15

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

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6334

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

4 Links

Exploits & PoCs

Vulnerability databases

96463

Record Details

Published

2017-03-06

Last updated

2026-01-12

Assigner (CNA)

mitre

Credited to

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