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CVE-2017-6896 json

Privilege escalation vulnerability on the DIGISOL DG-HR1400 1.00.02 wireless router enables an attacker to escalate from user privilege to…

published 2017-03-14 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-15950

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.7%
EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Privilege escalation vulnerability on the DIGISOL DG-HR1400 1.00.02 wireless router enables an attacker to escalate from user privilege to admin privilege just by modifying the Base64-encoded session cookie value.

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-41633)

Exploit prediction

3.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-41633 DIGISOL DG-HR1400 1.00.02 Wireless Router - Privilege Escalation webapps, 2017-03-18
  • indrajithan.com https://www.indrajithan.com/DIGISOL_router_previlage_escaltion referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-565 Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking

References

Sources

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