Security Resilience

CVE-2023-24236

RCE in Totolink A7100Ru Firmware 7.4cu.2313_b20191024

Published
16 February 2023
Modified
18 March 2025
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.019 79th percentile
Risk Priority 87 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-24236 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Totolink A7100Ru Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 21% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

TOTOlink A7100RU routers running firmware version V7.4cu.2313_B20191024 contain a command injection vulnerability in the setting/delStaticDhcpRules endpoint. The flaw is triggered through the province parameter and is tracked as CWE-77, carrying a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8 that reflects network-accessible exploitation without authentication or user interaction.

An unauthenticated attacker with network reachability can supply crafted input to the affected parameter and execute arbitrary commands on the device, resulting in full control over confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the router.

Public references consist of GitHub repositories that document the issue but contain no vendor advisories or patch guidance. The associated EPSS score rose from a low baseline to a peak of 0.3113 on 2025-01-22 before receding to its current value of 0.0519, indicating a period of increased exploitation interest well after the original disclosure.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

TOTOlink A7100RU(V7.4cu.2313_B20191024) was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability via the province parameter at setting/delStaticDhcpRules.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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CVE-2023-33556Same product: Totolink A7100Ru
CVE-2023-24238Same product: Totolink A7100Ru
CVE-2023-26848Same product: Totolink A7100Ru

Affected Assets

totolink
a7100ru firmware
7.4cu.2313_b20191024

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

blocks

A.8.25 mandates secure SDLC practices including secure coding guidelines, security requirements, checkpoints, testing (scans/penetration), and developer training that reduce command injection defects, but leaves a minority slice (e.g. incomplete implementation of those practices, outsourced development without full assurance, or post-SDLC changes) where the weakness can still arise and be exploitable.

blocks

Application security requirements explicitly call for controls against injection flaws including command injection.

blocks

A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (e.g. distrust external input, secure session control, data validation/sanitization, least privilege) and design reviews that can stop command injection from being introduced, but this is only a minority slice of CWE-77 because the weakness can still arise in code that bypasses those principles, in non-reviewed components, or in runtime injection vectors the architecture review does not reach.

prevents

Secure coding standards require proper escaping and parameterization of commands, directly eliminating CWE-77.

finds

Security testing in development catches command-injection vulnerabilities before release.

Hardening callouts derived

DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.

  • No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-77, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.

References