CVE-2024-1781
Published: 23 February 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-1781 is a medium-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Totolink X6000R Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 4.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Deeper analysis
A command injection vulnerability exists in the Totolink X6000R AX3000 router running firmware 9.4.0cu.852_20230719. The flaw resides in the setWizardCfg function within the /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi endpoint of the shttpd component and stems from improper handling of user-supplied input, corresponding to CWE-77. It received a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.3 with an attack vector of adjacent network.
An unauthenticated attacker on the same local network segment can send a crafted request to the affected CGI endpoint and execute arbitrary commands with limited impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Public proof-of-concept code has been released that demonstrates the issue, and the vendor was notified prior to disclosure but did not respond or issue a fix.
The associated EPSS score has remained flat at 0.1777 with no material increase after publication, indicating no observed surge in exploitation interest to date.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-17506
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was found in Totolink X6000R AX3000 9.4.0cu.852_20230719. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function setWizardCfg of the file /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi of the component shttpd. The manipulation leads to command injection. The exploit has been disclosed…
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to the public and may be used. The identifier VDB-254573 was assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Unauthenticated command injection in the public-facing web CGI interface (/cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi) enables exploitation of a public-facing application (T1190) and arbitrary Unix shell command execution (T1059.004) on the router.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.