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CVE-2018-10562

Dasan GPON Routers Command Injection Vulnerability

KEVEXPLOITCRITICAL 9.8EPSS 99.9%

Does this matter?

Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 21 April 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.

Description

An issue was discovered on Dasan GPON home routers. Command Injection can occur via the dest_host parameter in a diag_action=ping request to a GponForm/diag_Form URI. Because the router saves ping results in /tmp and transmits them to the user when the user revisits /diag.html, it's quite simple to execute commands and retrieve their output.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
99.95% probability · 100th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · first 3 May 2018
CISA KEV
Listed 31 March 2022 · due 21 April 2022 · used in ransomware campaigns
Weakness
CWE-78
Affected
dasannetworks/gpon router firmware
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%50%100%27 October 2026: 99.95%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 99.9% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

CISA notes

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10562

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-44576source ↗GPON Routers - Authentication Bypass / Command Injectionhardware · vpnmentorremote3 May 2018no

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.