CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-15557

8.8 HIGH Published 2019-06-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-06-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

An issue was discovered in the Quantenna WiFi Controller on Telus Actiontec WEB6000Q v1.1.02.22 devices. An attacker can statically set his/her IP to anything on the 169.254.1.0/24 subnet, and obtain root access by connecting to 169.254.1.2 port 23 with telnet/netcat.

Affected configurations

• actiontec web6000q firmware 1.1.02.22

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References