CVE-2017-16929
The remote management interface on the Claymore Dual GPU miner 10.1 is vulnerable to an authenticated directory traversal vulnerability exploited by issuing a specially crafted request, allowing a remote attacker to read/write arbitrary files.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.9%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
The remote management interface on the Claymore Dual GPU miner 10.1 is vulnerable to an authenticated directory traversal vulnerability exploited by issuing a specially crafted request, allowing a remote attacker to read/write arbitrary files. This can be exploited via ../ sequences in the pathname to miner_file or miner_getfile.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 12.89% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 7 December 2017
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22, CWE-119
- Affected
- claymore dual miner project/claymore dual miner
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 8.6% on 21 September 2026 to 12.9% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/04/3Mailing List
- https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2017-16929Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43231/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/04/3Mailing List
- https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2017-16929Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43231/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.