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CVE-2018-17178 — An issue was discovered on Neato Botvac Connected 2.2.0 devices

Medium CVSS 5.3

An issue was discovered on Neato Botvac Connected 2.2.0 devices. They execute unauthenticated manual drive commands (sent to /bin/webserver on port 8081) if they already have an active session. Commands like forward, back, arc-left, arc-right, pivot-left, and pivot-right are executed even though the web socket replies with { "message" : "invalid authorization header" }. Without an active session, commands are still interpreted, but (except for eco-on and eco-off) have no effect, since without active driving, a driving direction does not change anything.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.3 (3.1)
Published
2018-09-18
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system

Affected products

  • neatorobotics / botvac_d4_connected_firmware / 2.2.0
  • neatorobotics / botvac_d6_connected_firmware / 2.2.0
  • neatorobotics / botvac_d5_connected_firmware / 2.2.0
  • neatorobotics / botvac_d7_connected_firmware / 2.2.0
  • neatorobotics / botvac_d3_connected_firmware / 2.2.0

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General vulnerability remediation

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Check exposure

  • Confirm the affected component, deployment paths, reachable interfaces, and enabled features from inventories and configuration, without probing production destructively.
  • Compare the advisory's affected conditions with the repository lockfiles, build manifests, artifacts, and runtime inventory.
  • Identify data sensitivity, trust boundaries, and privilege level for every confirmed affected deployment.

Remediate safely

  • Apply a vendor-supported fix or remove the affected component or feature; record the selected change and its source in the repository.
  • Update direct and transitive dependency locks, generated artifacts, deployment manifests, and asset inventories together.
  • Add a regression test for the documented unsafe condition using inert inputs and preserve rollback instructions.

Authoritative sources

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