What is CVE-2017-11588?

CVE-2017-11588 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Cisco Residential Gateway, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-07-24.

How severe is CVE-2017-11588?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Cisco Residential Gateway

CVE-2017-11588

On Cisco DDR2200 ADSL2+ Residential Gateway DDR2200B-NA-AnnexA-FCC-V00.00.03.45.4E and DDR2201v1 ADSL2+ Residential Gateway DDR2201v1-NA-AnnexA-FCC-V00.00.03.28.3 devices, there is remote command execution via shell metacharacters in the pingAddr parameter to the waitPingqry.cgi URI. The command output is visible at /PingMsg.cmd.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.042 (89.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Cisco Residential_gateway
Cisco Residential_gateway_firmware — versions ddr2200b-na-annexa-fcc-v00.00.03.45.4e, ddr2201v1-na-annexa-fcc-v00.00.03.28.3
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11588?: CVE-2017-11588 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Cisco Residential Gateway, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-07-24.
How severe is CVE-2017-11588?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.