CVE-2017-9479

The Comcast firmware on Cisco DPC3939 (firmware version dpc3939-P20-18-v303r20421746-170221a-CMCST) devices allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root by leveraging local network access and connecting to the syseventd server, as demonstrated by copying configuration data into a readable filesystem.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-07-31

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-732

Affected products

• Dpc3939 Firmware (Cisco)

References

• https://github.com/BastilleResearch/CableTap/blob/master/doc/advisories/bastille-22.syseventd.txt