CVE-2018-3834

highpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.005 · 43 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.51% (43rd) EPSS
CVSS 7.8 · high
Is it mine?
2 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An exploitable permanent denial of service vulnerability exists in Insteon Hub running firmware version 1013. The firmware upgrade functionality, triggered via PubNub, retrieves signed firmware binaries using plain HTTP requests. The device doesn't check the kind of firmware image that is going to be installed and thus allows for flashing any signed firmware into any MCU. Since the device contains different and incompatible MCUs, flashing one firmware to the wrong MCU will result in a permanent brick condition. To trigger this vulnerability, an attacker needs to impersonate the remote server "cache.insteon.com" and serve a signed firmware image.

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8.7
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–8.7

v2.07.8highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 7.8
v3.17.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 5.2
v3.08.7highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.08.7highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Hsecondary · talos-cna@cisco.com USexploitability 2.2 · impact 5.8
v3.16.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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affected products (2)

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published 2018-08-02modified 2026-06-17
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