THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2025-69542
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2025-69542

Dir 895la1 Firmware vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
8.4%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
A Command Injection Vulnerability has been discovered in the DHCP daemon service of D-Link DIR895LA1 v102b07. The vulnerability exists in the lease renewal processing logic where the DHCP hostname parameter is directly concatenated into a system command without proper sanitization. When a DHCP client renews an existing lease with a malicious hostname, arbitrary commands can be executed with root privileges.
Affected vendor
Dlink
Affected product
Dir 895la1 Firmware
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2026-01-09

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 8.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2025-69542

  • Confirm whether Dlink Dir 895la1 Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2025-69542.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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