CVE-2020-24579

Dsl2888a Firmware vulnerability

CVSS

8.8

EPSS

10.0%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

An issue was discovered on D-Link DSL-2888A devices with firmware prior to AU_2.31_V1.1.47ae55. An unauthenticated attacker could bypass authentication to access authenticated pages and functionality.

Affected vendor

Dlink

Affected product

Dsl2888a Firmware

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

Published

2020-12-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable from an adjacent 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 10.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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