CVEPublished 2016-12-141 article on news7 live referencesNVD data

CVE-2016-6277

Vulnerability data via CVEDB (Shodan)

CISA KEVKnown exploited in the wild.
CISA action: NETGEAR confirmed multiple routers allow unauthenticated web pages to pass form input directly to the command-line interface, permitting remote code execution.
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
EPSS percentile
100
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 0% of all CVEs
Description

NETGEAR R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta, R6400 before 1.0.1.18.Beta, R6700 before 1.0.1.14.Beta, R6900, R7000 before 1.0.7.6.Beta, R7100LG before 1.0.0.28.Beta, R7300DST before 1.0.0.46.Beta, R7900 before 1.0.1.8.Beta, R8000 before 1.0.3.26.Beta, D6220, D6400, D7000, and possibly other routers allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the path info to cgi-bin/.

Timeline
Published 2016-12-14

External references

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

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Known PoCs on GitHub (3)