CVE-2018-19978: Auerswald Comfortel 1200 IP Firmware

High severity, CVSS 8.0. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the DHCP and PPPOE configuration interface of the Auerswald COMfort 1200 IP phone 3.4.4.1-10589 allows a remote attacker (authenticated as simple user in the same network as the device) to trigger remote code execution via a POST request (ManufacturerName parameter) to the web server on the device. The web server is running with root privileges and the injected code will also run with root privileges.

Affected products

• Auerswald Comfortel 1200 IP Firmware: version 3.4.4.1-10589 only

Published 2019-05-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.