What is CVE-2017-18797?

CVE-2017-18797 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Netgear R6400, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2020-04-21.

How severe is CVE-2017-18797?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Netgear R6400

CVE-2017-18797

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by an attacker's ability to read arbitrary files. This affects R6400 before 1.0.1.24, R7900 before 1.0.1.18, R8000 before 1.0.3.54, and R8500 before 1.0.2.100.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.003 (26.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.2 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Netgear R6400
Netgear R6400_firmware
Netgear R7900
Netgear R7900_firmware
Netgear R8000
Netgear R8000_firmware
Netgear R8500
Netgear R8500_firmware
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-18797?: CVE-2017-18797 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Netgear R6400, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2020-04-21.
How severe is CVE-2017-18797?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.