What is CVE-2017-16786?

CVE-2017-16786 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Meinbergglobal Lantime Firmware, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-12-19.

How severe is CVE-2017-16786?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Meinbergglobal Lantime Firmware

CVE-2017-16786

The Web Configuration Utility in Meinberg LANTIME devices with firmware before 6.24.004 allows remote authenticated users with certain privileges to read arbitrary files via (1) the ntpclientcounterlogfile parameter to cgi-bin/mainv2 or (2) vectors involving curl support of the "file" schema in the firmware update functionality.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2017-12-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (80.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 80.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/145388/Meinberg-LANTIME-Web-Configuration-Utility… (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Dec/50 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-16786?: CVE-2017-16786 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Meinbergglobal Lantime Firmware, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-12-19.
How severe is CVE-2017-16786?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.