What is CVE-2017-17215?
Huawei HG532 with some customized versions has a remote code execution vulnerability. An authenticated attacker could send malicious packets to port 37215 to launch attacks. Successful exploit could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
The record classifies CVE-2017-17215 under weakness class CWE-20. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs low-privilege credentials, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 3144 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 8.8 — HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 78.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 10/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2018-03-20, last modified 2024-08-05
Is CVE-2017-17215 being exploited?
Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2017-17215 is publicly available. 4 public proof-of-concept repositories are tracked for this identifier. It currently carries a trending score of 38 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
- 1337g/CVE-2017-17215 (github)
- wilfred-wulbou/HG532d-RCE-Exploit (github)
- ltfafei/HuaWei_Route_HG532_RCE_CVE-2017-17215 (github)
- trickest/cve (trickest)
Affected products and versions
- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.: HG532
How to fix CVE-2017-17215
Vendor advisory: http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-notices/huawei-sn-20171130-01-hg532-en. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2017-17215
5 tracked threats in the Threadlinqs corpus reference CVE-2017-17215, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
- ToxNetV2: AI-Assisted AArch64 Linux P2P Botnet Controller Using NVIDIA NIM LLM — HIGH · 2026-10-19
- TuxBot v3 Evolution: Keksec-Linked IoT/Linux Botnet with Verbatim LLM Chain-of-Thought Code Artifacts — MEDIUM · 2026-07-16
- TuxBot v3 Evolution: LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Framework With a Broken Multi-CVE Exploit Chain — HIGH · 2026-07-15
- RustDuck Botnet Rebuilt in Rust with Enhanced C2 Capabilities and Multi-Vector Exploitation — CRITICAL · 2026-06-30
- P2P Botnets in the Wild: Pink, Hajime, Mozi, FritzFrog, and Panchan — Decentralized C2 Landscape (360 Netlab Continuous Monitoring) — HIGH · 2026-06-10
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS, GitHub Security Advisories, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on . This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.