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CVE-2017-9482
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-07-31T03:29:00.440 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:28:12.587

Summary

The Comcast firmware on Cisco DPC3939 (firmware version dpc3939-P20-18-v303r20421746-170221a-CMCST) devices allows remote attackers to obtain root access to the Network Processor (NP) Linux system by enabling a TELNET daemon (through CVE-2017-9479 exploitation) and then establishing a TELNET session.

Affected products

cisco — dpc3939_firmware

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