CVE-2018-16739

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-10-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

An issue was discovered on certain ABUS TVIP devices. Due to a path traversal in /opt/cgi/admin/filewrite, an attacker can write to files, and thus execute code arbitrarily with root privileges.

Affected products

Abus Tvip 10000 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 10001 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 10005 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 10005A Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 10005B Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 10050 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 10051 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 10055A Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 10055B Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 10500 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 10550 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 11000 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 11050 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 11500 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 11501 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 11502 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 11550 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 11551 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 11552 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 20000 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 20050 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 20500 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 20550 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 21000 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 21050 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 21500 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 21501 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 21502 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 21550 Firmware: all versions
Abus Tvip 21551 Firmware: all versions

References

https://sec.maride.cc/posts/abus/
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2019/update-nicht-verfugbar-hersteller-nicht-zu-erreichen
https://sec.maride.cc/posts/abus/
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2019/update-nicht-verfugbar-hersteller-nicht-zu-erreichen

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