CVE-2018-15517

Central Wifimanager vulnerability

CVSS

8.6

EPSS

44.1%

EPSS pct

99th

Exploited

No known

The MailConnect feature on D-Link Central WiFiManager CWM-100 1.03 r0098 devices is intended to check a connection to an SMTP server but actually allows outbound TCP to any port on any IP address, leading to SSRF, as demonstrated by an index.php/System/MailConnect/host/127.0.0.1/port/22/secure/ URI.

Affected vendor

Dlink

Affected product

Central Wifimanager

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-918 — Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Published

2019-01-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 44.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it among the most exploited CVEs currently tracked.

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