Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-34862

High

Published: 25 October 2021

Published
25 October 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0152 81.7th percentile
Risk Priority 19 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-34862 is a high-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Dlink Dap-2020 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 18.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of D-Link DAP-2020 1.01rc001 routers. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of the var:menu parameter provided to the webproc…

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endpoint. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-13270.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

dlink
dap-2020 firmware
≤ 1.01

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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