CVE-2024-23624
Published: 26 January 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-23624 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Dlink Dap-1650 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.6 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 7.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
A command injection vulnerability exists in the gena.cgi module of D-Link DAP-1650 devices. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-23624 and assigned CWE-77, permits unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.6 reflecting an adjacent-network attack vector with no required credentials or user interaction.
An attacker positioned on the same network segment can send a crafted request to the affected CGI endpoint and obtain arbitrary command execution as root on the device. The published EPSS score remains near 0.1 with only minimal movement between its recorded peak and current value.
The primary public reference is a technical analysis published by Exodus Intelligence that details the subscribe functionality within gena.cgi as the injection point; no vendor advisory or firmware patch information is supplied in the available references.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-21118
Vulnerability details
A command injection vulnerability exists in the gena.cgi module of D-Link DAP-1650 devices. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain command execution on the device as root.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.