CVE-2018-17178: Neatorobotics Botvac d3 Connected Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered on Neato Botvac Connected 2.2.0 devices. They execute unauthenticated manual drive commands (sent to /bin/webserver on port 8081) if they already have an active session. Commands like forward, back, arc-left, arc-right, pivot-left, and pivot-right are executed even though the web socket replies with { "message" : "invalid authorization header" }. Without an active session, commands are still interpreted, but (except for eco-on and eco-off) have no effect, since without active driving, a driving direction does not change anything.

Affected products

• Neatorobotics Botvac d3 Connected Firmware: version 2.2.0 only
• Neatorobotics Botvac d4 Connected Firmware: version 2.2.0 only
• Neatorobotics Botvac d5 Connected Firmware: version 2.2.0 only
• Neatorobotics Botvac d6 Connected Firmware: version 2.2.0 only
• Neatorobotics Botvac d7 Connected Firmware: version 2.2.0 only

Published 2018-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.