CVE-2017-18865
mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.005 · 43 %ileEUUSgrimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.51% (43rd) EPSS
CVSS 5.2 · medium
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a stack-based buffer overflow by an authenticated user. This affects R8300 before 1.0.2.104 and R8500 before 1.0.2.104.
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cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
6.8
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
v3.16.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 0.9 · impact 5.9
v3.06.8mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · cve@mitre.org USexploitability 0.9 · impact 5.9
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weaknesses
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affected products (3)
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also known as (3)
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sources
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references (4)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://kb.netgear.com/000051485/Security-Advisory-for-Post-Authentication-Stack-Overflow-on-R8300-and-R8500-PSV-2017-2228cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18865cnnvd
- https://kb.netgear.com/000051485/Security-Advisory-for-Post-Authentication-Stack-Overflow-on-R8300-and-R8500-PSV-2017-2228enisa_euvd
- https://kb.netgear.com/000051485/Security-Advisory-for-Post-Authentication-Stack-Overflow-on-R8300-and-R8500-PSV-2017-2228Vendor Advisorynvd
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