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A vulnerability has been found in D-Link G416 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component awsfile. The manipulation leads to command injection. This vulnerability was named CVE-2023-50217. Access to the local network is required for this attack. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in D-Link G416 (the affected version is unknown). This affects an unknown code of the component awsfile. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

D-Link G416 awsfile rm Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of D-Link G416 routers. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the HTTP service listening on TCP port 80. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied string before using it to execute a system call. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-21811.

The weakness was released 12/20/2023 as ZDI-23-1833. It is possible to read the advisory at zerodayinitiative.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-50217 since 12/05/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/11/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• D-Link

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• G416

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• commercial

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