CVE-2017-5260

high

Published 2017-12-20 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

In versions 4.3.2-R4 and prior of Cambium Networks cnPilot firmware, although the option to access the configuration file is not available in the normal web administrative console for the 'user' account, the configuration file is accessible via direct object reference (DRO) at http://<device-ip-or-hostname>/goform/down_cfg_file by this otherwise low privilege 'user' account.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

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.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/cnpilot_r_web_login_loot rank 300

Cambium cnPilot r200/r201 Login Scanner and Config Dump

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

References

CWEs

CWE-472 CWE-732

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.