CVE-2017-16252: Insteon Hub Firmware

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Specially crafted commands sent through the PubNub service in Insteon Hub 2245-222 with firmware version 1012 can cause a stack-based buffer overflow overwriting arbitrary data. An attacker should send an authenticated HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.At 0x9d014cc0 the value for the cmd key is copied using strcpy to the buffer at $sp+0x11c. This buffer is 20 bytes large, sending anything longer will cause a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Insteon Hub Firmware: version 1012 only

Published 2018-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.