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CVE-2014-8886
AVM FRITZ!OS before 6.30 extracts the contents of firmware updates before verifying their cryptographic signature, which allows remote…
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 6.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
AVM FRITZ!OS before 6.30 extracts the contents of firmware updates before verifying their cryptographic signature, which allows remote attackers to create symlinks or overwrite critical files, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a crafted firmware image.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.1% · top 6.5% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- 20160107 [RT-SA-2014-014] AVM FRITZ!Box: Arbitrary Code Execution Through Manipulated Firmware Images (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 20160107 [RT-SA-2014-014] AVM FRITZ!Box: Arbitrary Code Execution Through Manipulated Firmware Images (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- https://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2014-014 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135161/AVM-FRITZ-Box-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Via-Firmware-Images.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://avm.de/service/sicherheitsinfos-zu-updates/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-8713 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2014-8886)Record last updated .