CVE-2018-20114 — On D-Link DIR-818LW Rev

On D-Link DIR-818LW Rev.A 2.05.B03 and DIR-860L Rev.B 2.03.B03 devices, unauthenticated remote OS command execution can occur in the soap.cgi service of the cgibin binary via an "&&" substring in the service parameter. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incom

01What is this vulnerability?

On D-Link DIR-818LW Rev.A 2.05.B03 and DIR-860L Rev.B 2.03.B03 devices, unauthenticated remote OS command execution can occur in the soap.cgi service of the cgibin binary via an "&&" substring in the service parameter. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-6530.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-01-02T18:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:51:19.206Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/pr0v3rbs/CVE/tree/master/CVE-2018-20114