D-Link DSL6740C Web/SSH/Telnet incorrect privileged apis

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in D-Link DSL6740C. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Web/SSH/Telnet. The manipulation results in incorrect use of privileged apis. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-11068. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in D-Link DSL6740C (affected version not known). It has been classified as very critical. Affected is some unknown functionality of the component Web/SSH/Telnet. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a incorrect use of privileged apis vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-648. The product does not conform to the API requirements for a function call that requires extra privileges. This could allow attackers to gain privileges by causing the function to be called incorrectly. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The D-Link DSL6740C modem has an Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs vulnerability, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to modify any user’s password by leveraging the API, thereby granting access to Web, SSH, and Telnet services using that user’s account.

The advisory is available at twcert.org.tw. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-11068 since 11/11/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/21/2024).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 211678 (D-Link Routers Incorrect Use Of Privileged APIs (CVE-2024-11068)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (211678). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• D-Link

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• DSL6740C

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• commercial

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• end of life

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• Vendor: https://www.dlink.com/

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