CVE-2019-17509 — D-Link DIR-846 devices with firmware 100A35 allow remote attackers to execute ar

D-Link DIR-846 devices with firmware 100A35 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands as root by leveraging admin access and sending a /HNAP1/ request for SetMasterWLanSettings with shell metacharacters to /squashfs-root/www/HNAP1/control/SetMasterWLanSettings.php.

01What is this vulnerability?

D-Link DIR-846 devices with firmware 100A35 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands as root by leveraging admin access and sending a /HNAP1/ request for SetMasterWLanSettings with shell metacharacters to /squashfs-root/www/HNAP1/control/SetMasterWLanSettings.php.

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

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-10-11T19:29:04.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T01:40:15.791Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/dahua966/Routers-vuls/blob/master/DIR-846/vuls_info.md