CVE-2018-3873: Samsung Sth-Eth-250 Firmware

Critical severity, CVSS 9.9. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the credentials handler of video-core's HTTP server of Samsung SmartThings Hub STH-ETH-250-Firmware version 0.20.17. The strncpy overflows the destination buffer, which has a size of 128 bytes. An attacker can send an arbitrarily long "secretKey" value in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Samsung Sth-Eth-250 Firmware: version 0.20.17 only

Published 2018-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.