CVE-2017-6896
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.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 3.7%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 3.70% probability · 90th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 18 March 2017
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-565
- Affected
- digisol/dg-hr1400 router firmware
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 2.7% on 21 September 2026 to 3.7% on 27 October 2026.
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://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Mar/52
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6715xUqH18MX29uRlpaSVJ4OTA/view?usp=sharingThird Party Advisory
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/141693/digisol-escalate.txt
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41633/
- https://www.indrajithan.com/DIGISOL_router_previlage_escaltionExploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Mar/52
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6715xUqH18MX29uRlpaSVJ4OTA/view?usp=sharingThird Party Advisory
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/141693/digisol-escalate.txt
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41633/
- https://www.indrajithan.com/DIGISOL_router_previlage_escaltionExploit, Third Party Advisory
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