CVE-2015-2051
The D-Link DIR-645 Wired/Wireless Router Rev. Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 97.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 10 Feb 2022
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The D-Link DIR-645 Wired/Wireless Router Rev. Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a GetDeviceSettings action to the HNAP interface.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as D-Link DIR-645 Router Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
- Added
- 10 Feb 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 10 Aug 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 10 Feb 2022.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- D-Link Devices HNAP SOAPAction-Header Command Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/http/dlink_hnap_header_exec_noauthRank normaldisclosed 13 Feb 2015
Exploit-DB1 entry
- D-Link Devices - HNAP SOAPAction-Header Command Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 37171remote, hardwarepublished 1 Jun 2015Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 37171 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 4 years later
· 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 97.1% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References6
- http://securityadvisories.dlink.com/security/publication.aspx?name=SAP10051 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 37171 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 72623 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 74870 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://supportannouncement.us.dlink.com/announcement/publication.aspx?name=SAP10282 (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-2051 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
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)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-2164 (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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