CVE-2013-10069 D-Link Devices Unauthenticated RCE

What is CVE-2013-10069?

CVE-2013-10069 is a critical command injection vulnerability in D-Link DIR-300 rev B, published on 5 Aug 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The web interface of multiple D-Link routers, including DIR-600 rev B (≤2.14b01) and DIR-300 rev B (≤2.13), contains an unauthenticated OS command injection vulnerability in command.php, which improperly handles the cmd POST parameter. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw without authentication to spawn a Telnet service on a specified port, enabling persistent interactive shell access as root.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-10069?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Dlink Dir-300 Firmware, Dlink Dir-600 Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2013-10069?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-10069 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2013-10069 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2013-10069 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module.

Other vulnerabilities in D-Link DIR-300 rev B

• CVE-2011-4723 D-Link DIR-300 Router Cleartext Storage of a Password Exploited Medium 5.7
• CVE-2023-31814 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2013-7471 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2013-10048 D-Link Devices command.php Unauthenticated RCE Critical 9.3
• CVE-2024-41616 Hardcoded credentials in n/a High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-hfjr-pxjv-x4fv.