What is CVE-2017-11344?

CVE-2017-11344 is a high-severity vulnerability in Asuswrt-Merlin Project Rt-Ac1200, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2017-11344?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Asuswrt-Merlin Project Rt-Ac1200

CVE-2017-11344

Global buffer overflow in networkmap in Asuswrt-Merlin firmware for ASUS devices and ASUS firmware for ASUS RT-AC5300, RT_AC1900P, RT-AC68U, RT-AC68P, RT-AC88U, RT-AC66U, RT-AC66U_B1, RT-AC58U, RT-AC56U, RT-AC55U, RT-AC52U, RT-AC51U, RT-N18U, RT-N66U, RT-N56U, RT-AC3200, RT-AC3100, RT_AC1200GU, RT_AC1200G, RT-AC1200, RT-AC53, RT-N12HP, RT-N12HP_B1, RT-N12D1, RT-N12+, RT_N12+_PRO, RT-N16, and RT-N300 devices allows remote attackers to write shellcode at any address in the heap; this can be used to execute arbitrary code on the router by hosting a crafted device description XML document at a URL specified within a Location header in an SSDP response.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.028 (84.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
cve@mitre.org (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11344?: CVE-2017-11344 is a high-severity vulnerability in Asuswrt-Merlin Project Rt-Ac1200, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2017-11344?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.