CVE-2008-6974
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in apply.cgi in DD-WRT 24 sp1 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 26% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in apply.cgi in DD-WRT 24 sp1 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) execute arbitrary commands via the ping_ip parameter; (2) change the administrative credentials via the http_username and http_passwd parameters; (3) enable remote administration via the remote_management parameter; or (4) configure port forwarding via certain from, to, ip, and pro parameters.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits3
Exploit-DB2 entries
- DD-WRT HTTPd Daemon/Service - Remote Command Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 9209remote, hardwarepublished 20 Jul 2009Verified
- DD-WRT v24-sp1 - Cross-Site Reference Forgery (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 7389remote, hardwarepublished 8 Dec 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 9209 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 9209 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 20081211 Re: Multiple XSRF in DD-WRT (Remote Root Command Execution) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20081210 Re: Multiple XSRF in DD-WRT (Remote Root Command Execution) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=55173 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20081211 Re: Multiple XSRF in DD-WRT (Remote Root Command Execution) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20081208 Multiple XSRF in DD-WRT (Remote Root Command Execution) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-6933 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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