What is CVE-2017-9480?

CVE-2017-9480 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Dpc3939, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-31.

How severe is CVE-2017-9480?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Cisco Dpc3939

CVE-2017-9480

The Comcast firmware on Cisco DPC3939 (firmware version dpc3939-P20-18-v303r20421746-170221a-CMCST) devices allows local users (e.g., users who have command access as a consequence of CVE-2017-9479 exploitation) to read arbitrary files via UPnP access to /var/IGD/.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.004 (32.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Cisco Dpc3939
Cisco Dpc3939_firmware — versions dpc3939-p20-18-v303r20421746-170221a-cmcst
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9480?: CVE-2017-9480 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Dpc3939, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-31.
How severe is CVE-2017-9480?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.