CVE-2017-8156

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Published 2017-11-22 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.8

Description

The outdoor unit of Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) product B2338-168 V100R001C00 has a no authentication vulnerability on the serial port. An attacker can access the serial port on the circuit board of the outdoor unit and log in to the CPE without authentication. Successful exploit could allow the attacker to take control over the outdoor unit.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

67%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

CWEs

CWE-306

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

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