CVE-2024-45696 is a critical vulnerability affecting specific D-Link COVR-X1870 and DIR-X4860 wireless router models, where hidden functionality allows an attacker to forcibly enable the telnet service. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the adjacent network (AV:A, AC:L) without authentication (PR:N), leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H, I:H, A:H) due to hard-coded credentials. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No) or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating high awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.03b01CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:dlink:covr-x1870_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.00CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:dlink:dir-x4860_firmware:1.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:dlink:dir-x4860_firmware:1.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.