# CVE-2023-25280: D-Link DIR820LA1_FW105B03 - RCE

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2023-25280 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2023-25280

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 9.8
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** D-Link Dir-820l
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-78 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection'))
- **Tags:** firewall, iot

## Description

OS Command injection vulnerability in D-Link DIR820LA1_FW105B03 allows attackers to escalate privileges to root via a crafted payload with the ping_addr parameter to ping.ccp.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2023-25280](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2023-25280) is a critical OS command injection vulnerability affecting D-Link DIR-820L devices, where attackers can escalate privileges to root by submitting a malicious payload to an endpoint related to network diagnostics.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 13th of November 2024.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2023-25280 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Exploitation attempts focus on requests targeting URLs containing `/ping.ccp`.

## Timeline

- 2023-03-16: CVE Published. CVE-2023-25280 is published to NVD.
- 2024-09-30: CISA KEV. CVE-2023-25280 is added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog by CISA.
- 2024-10-21: CISA Remediation Deadline. Expiration of the CISA remediation deadline as described in [BOD 22-01](https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-22-01-reducing-significant-risk-known-exploited-vulnerabilities).
- 2024-11-13: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2023-25280 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2024-12-11: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2023-25280 for the first time.

## References

- https://www.dlink.com/en/security-bulletin/
- https://github.com/migraine-sudo/D_Link_Vuln/tree/main/cmd%20Inject%20in%20pingV4Msg
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-25280.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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