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CVE-2014-8361 — Realtek Sdk

CISA KEV
CVSS v3.1 9.8 (CRITICAL) · EPSS 99.9% (higher than 99.9% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 9/10 · Published 2015-05-01

As of 2025-10-21, CVE-2014-8361 is a CRITICAL-severity vulnerability in Realtek Sdk, CVSS v3.1 9.8, EPSS 99.9% (99.9th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-09-18), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2023-10-09. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 3 tracked threat campaigns to CVE-2014-8361, most recently “TuxBot v3 Evolution: Keksec-Linked IoT/Linux Botnet with Verbatim LLM Chain-of-Thought Code Artifacts”.

Last updated: 2025-10-21

What is CVE-2014-8361?

The miniigd SOAP service in Realtek SDK allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted NewInternalClient request, as exploited in the wild through 2023.

Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 30 affected-product entries are recorded, across 2 vendors, listed below. The identifier was first published 4153 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score
9.8 — CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (FIRST)
99.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.9% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV
Listed since 2023-09-18, federal remediation deadline 2023-10-09
Threadlinqs priority
9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
Published
2015-05-01, last modified 2025-10-21

Is CVE-2014-8361 being exploited?

CISA added CVE-2014-8361 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2023-09-18, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2023-10-09 under BOD 22-01. Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2014-8361 is publicly available. 1 public proof-of-concept repository is tracked for this identifier. It currently carries a trending score of 43 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

Showing 25 of 30 recorded product entries.

How to fix CVE-2014-8361

Vendor advisory: http://securityadvisories.dlink.com/security/publication.aspx?name=SAP10055. Because CVE-2014-8361 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2023-10-09. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2014-8361

3 tracked threats in the Threadlinqs corpus reference CVE-2014-8361, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

Sources

Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS, CISA KEV, GitHub Security Advisories, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on . This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

Exploit and proof of concept

Third-party advisory

Vulnerability database entry

Other references

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