CVE-2024-45698: D-Link Dir-x4860 Firmware

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Certain models of D-Link wireless routers do not properly validate user input in the telnet service, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to use hard-coded credentials to log into telnet and inject arbitrary OS commands, which can then be executed on the device.

Affected products

• D-Link Dir-x4860 Firmware: version 1.00 only; version 1.04 only

Published 2024-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.