CVE-2018-6012

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-11-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The 'Weather Service' feature of the Green Electronics RainMachine Mini-8 (2nd generation) allows an attacker to inject arbitrary Python code via the 'Add new weather data source' upload function.

Affected products

Rainmachine Mini-8 Firmware: from 4.0.539 through 4.0.975

References

http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/bsidesrdu2018/bsidesrdu-2018-07-when-it-rains-it-pours-sam-granger
http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/bsidesrdu2018/bsidesrdu-2018-07-when-it-rains-it-pours-sam-granger

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