CVE-2017-14948: D-Link Dir-868l Firmware

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Certain D-Link products are affected by: Buffer Overflow. This affects DIR-880L 1.08B04 and DIR-895 L/R 1.13b03. The impact is: execute arbitrary code (remote). The component is: htdocs/fileaccess.cgi. The attack vector is: A crafted HTTP request handled by fileacces.cgi could allow an attacker to mount a ROP attack: if the HTTP header field CONTENT_TYPE starts with ''boundary=' followed by more than 256 characters, a buffer overflow would be triggered, potentially causing code execution.

Affected products

  • D-Link Dir-868l Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • D-Link Dir-880l Firmware: version 1.08b04 only
  • D-Link Dir-885l Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • D-Link Dir-890l Firmware: affected versions not specified
  • D-Link Dir-895l Firmware: version 1.13b03 only
  • D-Link Dir-895r Firmware: version 1.13b03 only

Published 2019-10-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.