CVE-2017-17737

medium

Published 2017-12-18 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.1

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.1

Description

The BrightSign Digital Signage (4k242) device (Firmware 6.2.63 and below) has XSS via the REF parameter to /network_diagnostics.html or /storage_info.html.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

71%

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 — if you've already worked around this in production — 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-43364 webapps hardware

Information Paradox · 2017-12-19

BrightSign Digital Signage - Multiple Vulnerablities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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

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