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CVE-2018-14942

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Harmonic NSG 9000 devices allow remote authenticated users to conduct directory traversal attacks, as demonstrated by "POST /PY/EMULATION_GET_FILE" or "POST /PY/EMULATION_EXPORT" with FileName=../../../passwd in the POST data.

Affected products

• Harmonicinc Nsg 9000 Firmware: all versions

References

• https://github.com/pudding2/NSG9000/blob/master/exp.txt
• https://github.com/pudding2/NSG9000/blob/master/exp.txt

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