CVE-2014-8657

medium
Published 2014-11-06 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

The Compal Broadband Networks (CBN) CH6640E and CG6640E Wireless Gateway 1.0 with firmware CH6640-3.5.11.7-NOSH allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disconnect all wifi clients) via a request to wirelessChannelStatus.html.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-35075 webapps hardware
LiquidWorm ยท 2014-10-27

CBN CH6640E/CG6640E Wireless Gateway Series - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
compal_broadband_networksfirmwarech6640-3.5.11.7-nosh

References

CWEs

CWE-16

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.