CVE-2022-29778 — D-Link DIR-890L 1

D-Link DIR-890L 1.20b01 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code due to the hardcoded option Wake-On-Lan for the parameter 'descriptor' at SetVirtualServerSettings.php

01What is this vulnerability?

D-Link DIR-890L 1.20b01 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code due to the hardcoded option Wake-On-Lan for the parameter 'descriptor' at SetVirtualServerSettings.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: 2022-06-03T20:19:24.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-10-28T20:55:50.109Z

09References

• www.dlink.com — https://www.dlink.com/en/security-bulletin/
• github.com — https://github.com/TyeYeah/DIR-890L-1.20-RCE