High severity · published Aug 6, 2018
CVE-2017-16252
Specially crafted commands sent through the PubNub service in Insteon Hub 2245-222 with firmware version 1012 can cause a stack-based buffer overflow overwriting arbitrary data
8.1
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Specially crafted commands sent through the PubNub service in Insteon Hub 2245-222 with firmware version 1012 can cause a stack-based buffer overflow overwriting arbitrary data. An attacker should send an authenticated HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.At 0x9d014cc0 the value for the cmd key is copied using strcpy to the buffer at $sp+0x11c. This buffer is 20 bytes large, sending anything longer will cause a buffer overflow.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 68% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IN
Insteon · Talos
Insteon Hub 2245-222 - Firmware version 1012 · source: vendor
HF
Hub Firmware · Insteon
1012 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16252
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16252
Exploit
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0483
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