CVE-2018-20218
An attacker is able to perform command injection using the "password" parameter in the login form.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.7%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
An issue was discovered on Teracue ENC-400 devices with firmware 2.56 and below. The login form passes user input directly to a shell command without any kind of escaping or validation in /usr/share/www/check.lp file. An attacker is able to perform command injection using the "password" parameter in the login form.
- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 10.73% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 22 February 2019
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Affected
- teracue/enc-400 hdmi firmware · teracue/enc-400 hdmi2 firmware · teracue/enc-400 hdsdi firmware
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 8.5% on 21 September 2026 to 10.7% 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://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Feb/48Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://zxsecurity.co.nz/research.htmlNot Applicable
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Feb/48Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://zxsecurity.co.nz/research.htmlNot Applicable
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.