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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-12710

Being local to the network and having only "User" account (which is a low privilege account) access, an attacker can intercept the response from a POST request to obtain "Admin" rights due to the admin password being displayed in XML.

HIGH 8.0EPSS 76.5%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 76.5%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

An issue was discovered on D-Link DIR-601 2.02NA devices. Being local to the network and having only "User" account (which is a low privilege account) access, an attacker can intercept the response from a POST request to obtain "Admin" rights due to the admin password being displayed in XML.

CVSS 3.0
8.0 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
76.51% probability · 100th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-319
Affected
dlink/dir-601 firmware
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.