CVE-2023-45985 — TOTOLINK X5000R V9

TOTOLINK X5000R V9.1.0u.6118_B20201102 and TOTOLINK A7000R V9.1.0u.6115_B20201022 were discovered to contain a stack overflow in the function setParentalRules. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted POST request.

01What is this vulnerability?

TOTOLINK X5000R V9.1.0u.6118_B20201102 and TOTOLINK A7000R V9.1.0u.6115_B20201022 were discovered to contain a stack overflow in the function setParentalRules. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted POST request.

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

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: 2023-10-16T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-10-30T19:52:55.307Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/Archerber/bug_submit/blob/main/TOTOLINK/setParentalRules.md