Critical WOL cmd injection on D-Link DIR-605L 2.13B01 (wake_on_lan)
CVE-2025-4445 Published on May 9, 2025
D-Link DIR-605L wake_on_lan command injection
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in D-Link DIR-605L 2.13B01. Affected is the function wake_on_lan. The manipulation of the argument mac leads to command injection. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
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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-2025-4445 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-2025-4445 has been classified to as an Injection vulnerability or weakness.
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Affected Versions
D-Link DIR-605L Version 2.13B01 is affected by CVE-2025-4445Exploit Probability
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