CVE-2017-8116
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
The management interface for the Teltonika RUT9XX routers (aka LuCI) with firmware 00.03.265 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via shell metacharacters in the username parameter in a login request.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/nettitude/metasploit-modules/blob/master/teltonika_add_user.rb
- https://github.com/nettitude/metasploit-modules/blob/master/teltonika_cmd_exec.rb
- https://labs.nettitude.com/blog/cve-2017-8116-teltonika-router-unauthenticated-remote-code-execution/
- https://github.com/nettitude/metasploit-modules/blob/master/teltonika_add_user.rb
- https://github.com/nettitude/metasploit-modules/blob/master/teltonika_cmd_exec.rb
- https://labs.nettitude.com/blog/cve-2017-8116-teltonika-router-unauthenticated-remote-code-execution/
CWEs
CWE-78
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.