CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2017-14443 — An exploitable information leak vulnerability exists in Insteon Hub running firmware version 1012

Critical CVSS 9.6

An exploitable information leak vulnerability exists in Insteon Hub running firmware version 1012. The HTTP server implementation incorrectly checks the number of GET parameters supplied, leading to an arbitrarily controlled information leak on the whole device memory. An attacker can send an authenticated HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.6 (3.0)
Published
2018-09-17
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Affected products

  • insteon / hub_2245-222_firmware / 1012

Matched remediation archetype

Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure

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Check exposure

  • Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
  • Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
  • Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.

Remediate safely

  • Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
  • Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
  • Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.

Authoritative sources

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