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CVE-2018-10561

97
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-10561 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Dasan GPON home routers, allowing unauthenticated attackers to gain full device management access by simply appending "?images" to any authenticated URL. With a CVSS score of 9.8 and an EPSS score indicating high exploitability, this flaw presents a severe risk. It is actively exploited in the wild, with public exploit code available on ExploitDB and significant community discussion and media coverage highlighting its widespread impact, including botnet activity.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:dasannetworks:gpon_router_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
92.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-23
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 31, 2022
ExploitDB: EDB-44576 · May 3, 2018
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.9289 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 36,821 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
exploit-db.com / exploits/44576
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
vpnmentor.com / blog/critical-vulnerability-gpon-router
ExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/107053
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry