A vulnerability was found in Natus Xltek NeuroWorks 8 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function RequestForPatientInfoEEGfile. The manipulation as part of a Network Packet leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An exploitable Code Execution vulnerability exists in the RequestForPatientInfoEEGfile functionality of Natus Xltek NeuroWorks 8. A specially crafted network packet can cause a stack buffer overflow resulting in arbitrary command execution. An attacker can send a malicious packet to trigger this vulnerability.

The bug was discovered 04/04/2018. The weakness was disclosed 04/05/2018 by Cisco with Cisco Talos (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-2853 since 12/01/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries 115863, 115864, 115865 and 115866 are pretty similar.

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