CVE-2017-16788: Meinbergglobal Lantime Firmware

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the "Upload Groupkey" functionality in the Web Configuration Utility in Meinberg LANTIME devices with firmware before 6.24.004 allows remote authenticated users with Admin-User access to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges by uploading a file, as demonstrated by storing a file in the cron.d directory.

Affected products

• Meinbergglobal Lantime Firmware: before 6.24.004 (fixed in 6.24.004)

Published 2017-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.