Arris SURFboard SSDP Command Injection Vulnerability

EIP-55f127ea

A vulnerability exists within Arris SURFboard’s handling of Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) messages. A specially crafted NOTIFY message with a LOCATION header can result in a command injection under the context of the root user.

Vulnerability Identifiers

  • Exodus Intelligence: EIP-55f127ea
  • MITRE CVE: CVE-2021-41552

Vulnerability Metrics

  • CVSSv2 Score: 8.3

Vendor References

Discovery Credit

  • Exodus Intelligence

Disclosure Timeline

  • Disclosed to affected vendor: June 16th, 2021
  • Disclosed to public: February 2nd, 2022

Further Information

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