THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-17440
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2018-17440

Central Wifimanager vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
36.9%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
An issue was discovered on D-Link Central WiFi Manager before v 1.03r0100-Beta1. They expose an FTP server that serves by default on port 9000 and has hardcoded credentials (admin, admin). Taking advantage of this, a remote unauthenticated attacker could execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading any file in the web root directory and then accessing it via a request.
Affected vendor
Dlink
Affected product
Central Wifimanager
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-434 — Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
Published
2018-10-08

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 confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 36.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-17440

  • Confirm whether Dlink Central Wifimanager is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-17440.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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