Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-27216

HighRCE

Published: 12 April 2023

Published
12 April 2023
Modified
10 February 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.2776 96.6th percentile
Risk Priority 34 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-27216 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Dlink Dsl-3782 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 3.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The vulnerability CVE-2023-27216 is an OS command injection issue (CWE-78) present in the D-Link DSL-3782 router running firmware version 1.03. It resides in the network settings page and received a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8.

Remote authenticated users can exploit the flaw over the network without user interaction to execute arbitrary code as root, resulting in full compromise of device confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

D-Link references a security bulletin on its site for this issue, while independent analysis is available at lessonsec.com. The associated EPSS score reached a peak of 0.3621 and currently stands at 0.2776.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue found in D-Link DSL-3782 v.1.03 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code as root via the network settings page.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

dlink
dsl-3782 firmware
1.03

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

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