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CVE-2018-19300

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 74.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

On D-Link DAP-1530 (A1) before firmware version 1.06b01, DAP-1610 (A1) before firmware version 1.06b01, DWR-111 (A1) before firmware version 1.02v02, DWR-116 (A1) before firmware version 1.06b03, DWR-512 (B1) before firmware version 2.02b01, DWR-711 (A1) through firmware version 1.11, DWR-712 (B1) before firmware version 2.04b01, DWR-921 (A1) before firmware version 1.02b01, and DWR-921 (B1) before firmware version 2.03b01, there exists an EXCU_SHELL file in the web directory. By sending a GET request with specially crafted headers to the /EXCU_SHELL URI, an attacker could execute arbitrary shell commands in the root context on the affected device. Other devices might be affected as well.

Affected products

• D-Link Dap-1530 Firmware: through 1.05
• D-Link Dap-1610 Firmware: through 1.05
• D-Link Dwr-116 Firmware: 1.06-b1, 1.06-b2
• D-Link Dwr-711 Firmware: through 1.11
• Dlink Dwr-111 Firmware: through 1.01
• Dlink Dwr-116 Firmware: through 1.05
• Dlink Dwr-512 Firmware: through 2.02
• Dlink Dwr-712 Firmware: through 2.02
• Dlink Dwr-921 Firmware: through 1.02; through 2.02

References

• https://community.greenbone.net/t/cve-2018-19300-remote-command-execution-vulnerability-in-d-link-dwr-and-dap-routers/1772
• https://eu.dlink.com/de/de/support/support-news/2019/march/19/remote-command-execution-vulnerability-in-d-link-dwr-and-dap-routers
• https://www.greenbone.net/en/serious-vulnerability-discovered-in-d-link-routers/
• https://www.greenbone.net/schwerwiegende-sicherheitsluecke-in-d-link-routern-entdeckt/
• https://community.greenbone.net/t/cve-2018-19300-remote-command-execution-vulnerability-in-d-link-dwr-and-dap-routers/1772
• https://eu.dlink.com/de/de/support/support-news/2019/march/19/remote-command-execution-vulnerability-in-d-link-dwr-and-dap-routers
• https://www.greenbone.net/en/serious-vulnerability-discovered-in-d-link-routers/
• https://www.greenbone.net/schwerwiegende-sicherheitsluecke-in-d-link-routern-entdeckt/

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