D-Link DIR-823X Command Injection via ppp_username
CVE-2025-14208 Published on December 8, 2025
D-Link DIR-823X set_wan_settings sub_415028 command injection
A security flaw has been discovered in D-Link DIR-823X up to 20250416. This affects the function sub_415028 of the file /goform/set_wan_settings. The manipulation of the argument ppp_username results in command injection. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been released to the public and may be exploited.
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Weakness Types
What is a Command Injection Vulnerability?
The software constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component.
CVE-2025-14208 has been classified to as a Command Injection vulnerability or weakness.
What is an Injection Vulnerability?
The software constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Software has certain assumptions about what constitutes data and control respectively. It is the lack of verification of these assumptions for user-controlled input that leads to injection problems. Injection problems encompass a wide variety of issues -- all mitigated in very different ways and usually attempted in order to alter the control flow of the process. For this reason, the most effective way to discuss these weaknesses is to note the distinct features which classify them as injection weaknesses. The most important issue to note is that all injection problems share one thing in common -- i.e., they allow for the injection of control plane data into the user-controlled data plane. This means that the execution of the process may be altered by sending code in through legitimate data channels, using no other mechanism. While buffer overflows, and many other flaws, involve the use of some further issue to gain execution, injection problems need only for the data to be parsed. The most classic instantiations of this category of weakness are SQL injection and format string vulnerabilities.
CVE-2025-14208 has been classified to as an Injection vulnerability or weakness.
Affected Versions
D-Link DIR-823X Version 20250416 is affected by CVE-2025-14208Exploit Probability
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