CVE-2016-9494: Hughes DW7000 Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Hughes high-performance broadband satellite modems, models HN7740S DW7000 HN7000S/SM, are potentially vulnerable to improper input validation. The device's advanced status web page that is linked to from the basic status web page does not appear to properly parse malformed GET requests. This may lead to a denial of service.

Affected products

• Hughes DW7000 Firmware: version 6.9.0.34 only
• Hughes HN7000S Firmware: version 6.9.0.34 only
• Hughes HN7000SM Firmware: version 6.9.0.34 only
• Hughes HN7740S Firmware: version 6.9.0.34 only

Published 2018-07-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.