Vulnerability · Published Aug 10, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-29296
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 66% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability in D-Link DIR-825 2.10b02, which could let a remote malicious user cause a denial of service. The vulnerability could be triggered by sending an HTTP request with URL /vct_wan; the sbin/httpd would invoke the strchr function and take NULL as a first argument, which finally leads to the segmentation fault. NOTE: The DIR-825 and all hardware revisions is considered End of Life and as such this issue will not be patched
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.dlink.com/en/security-bulletin/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://supportannouncement.us.dlink.com/announcement/publication.aspx?name=SAP10212 x_refsource_MISC