CVE-2020-15894

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-07-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-306

Description

An issue was discovered on D-Link DIR-816L devices 2.x before 1.10b04Beta02. There exists an exposed administration function in getcfg.php, which can be used to call various services. It can be utilized by an attacker to retrieve various sensitive information, such as admin login credentials, by setting the value of _POST_SERVICES in the query string to DEVICE.ACCOUNT.

Affected products

D-Link DIR-816L: 2.06, 2.06.b09-beta

References

https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/multiple-vulnerabilities-discovered-in-the-d-link-firmware-dir-816l/
https://supportannouncement.us.dlink.com/announcement/publication.aspx?name=SAP10169
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/multiple-vulnerabilities-discovered-in-the-d-link-firmware-dir-816l/
https://supportannouncement.us.dlink.com/announcement/publication.aspx?name=SAP10169

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