Vulnerability · Published Aug 23, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-39615

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-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 2.2% (higher than 83% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)2.2%top 17.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

D-Link DSR-500N version 1.02 contains hard-coded credentials for undocumented user accounts in the '/etc/passwd' file.If an attacker succeeds in recovering the cleartext password of the identified hash value, he will be able to log in via SSH or Telnet and thus gain access to the underlying embedded Linux operating system on the device. Fixed in version 2.12/2. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://www.dlink.com/en/security-bulletin/ x_refsource_MISC
https://supportannouncement.us.dlink.com/announcement/publication.aspx?name=SAP10235 x_refsource_MISC
https://www.nussko.com/advisories/advisory-2021-08-02.txt x_refsource_MISC