CVE-2017-14115: Att U-Verse Firmware

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The AT&T U-verse 9.2.2h0d83 firmware for the Arris NVG589 and NVG599 devices, when IP Passthrough mode is not used, configures ssh-permanent-enable WAN SSH logins to the remotessh account with the 5SaP9I26 password, which allows remote attackers to access a "Terminal shell v1.0" service, and subsequently obtain unrestricted root privileges, by establishing an SSH session and then entering certain shell metacharacters and BusyBox commands.

Affected products

• Att U-Verse Firmware: version 9.2.2h0d83 only

Published 2017-09-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.