CVE-2017-16253: An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the PubNub message handler Insteon Hub 2245-222 - Firmware version 1012 for the cc channel of Insteon…

PriorityP346high8.1CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUINSUCNIHAH

EPSS

1.10%

61.5th percentile

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the PubNub message handler Insteon Hub 2245-222 - Firmware version 1012 for the cc channel of Insteon Hub running firmware version 1012. Specially crafted commands sent through the PubNub service can cause a stack-based buffer overflow overwriting arbitrary data. An attacker can send an authenticated HTTP request At 0x9d014dd8 the value for the id key is copied using strcpy to the buffer at $sp+0x290. This buffer is 32 bytes large, sending anything longer will cause a buffer overflow.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
insteon	hub_firmware	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvdv3.08.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.05.5MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

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