CVE-2018-19978

Severity: high (CVSS 8.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-05-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the DHCP and PPPOE configuration interface of the Auerswald COMfort 1200 IP phone 3.4.4.1-10589 allows a remote attacker (authenticated as simple user in the same network as the device) to trigger remote code execution via a POST request (ManufacturerName parameter) to the web server on the device. The web server is running with root privileges and the injected code will also run with root privileges.

Affected products

Auerswald Comfortel 1200 Ip Firmware: 3.4.4.1-10589

References

https://www.auerswald.de/de/service/81-telefone/schnurgebundene-telefone/1568-comfortel-1200-ip.html
https://www.sit.fraunhofer.de/fileadmin/dokumente/CVE/Advisory_Auerswald_COMfortel_1200_IP.pdf?_=1549376183
https://www.auerswald.de/de/service/81-telefone/schnurgebundene-telefone/1568-comfortel-1200-ip.html
https://www.sit.fraunhofer.de/fileadmin/dokumente/CVE/Advisory_Auerswald_COMfortel_1200_IP.pdf?_=1549376183

Get alerted when CVE-2018-19978 or the next vulnerability affects your stack