high Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2016-6277NETGEAR Routers — Request Forgery to Command Execution

Several Netgear router models act on requests without checking where they came from, so a page a user merely visits can run commands on their router.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Update the router firmware per Netgear's advisory, and change the administrator password afterwards.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
8.8/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
100%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2016-12-14
Added to KEV
2022-03-07
Exploit published
Yes
Confidence
high
Kill chain
initial access
MITRE ATT&CK
T1189
Severity
high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attacker needsA user of the network visits an attacker's page

Behind the card

5 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, references, published_atnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_addedcisa.gov2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.

crds:cve-2016-6277 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-08-07