The Comcast firmware on Cisco DPC3939 (firmware version dpc3939-P20-18-v303r20421746-170221a-CMCST) devices allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root by leveraging local network access and connecting to the syseventd server, as demonstrated by copying configuration data into a readable filesystem.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-07-31T03:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:11:02.198Z

Reserved: 2017-06-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-9479

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-07-31T03:29:00.333

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-9479

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