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 4198 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 48 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
- trickest/cve (trickest)
Affected products and versions
- Dlink: Dir-905l Firmware, Dir-905l a1, Dir-905l b1, Dir-605l Firmware, Dir-605l a1, Dir-600l Firmware, Dir-600l a1, Dir-619l Firmware, Dir-619l a1, Dir-619l b1, Dir-605l b1, Dir-605l c1, Dir-600l b1, Dir-809 Firmware, Dir-809 a1, Dir-809 a2, Dir-900l Firmware, Dir-900l a1, Dir-501 Firmware, Dir-501 a1, Dir-515 Firmware, Dir-515 a1, Dir-615 Firmware 10.01b02, Dir-615 j1
- Realtek: Sdk
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
6 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.
- ToxNetV2: AI-Assisted AArch64 Linux P2P Botnet Controller Using NVIDIA NIM LLM — HIGH · 2026-10-19
- ClingSTUN Linux Backdoor Turns Unpatched IoT Devices Into Proxy Nodes via Public STUN Infrastructure — HIGH · 2026-10-05
- Cling IoT botnet masquerades as Google STUN traffic for C2, exploiting Realtek Jungle SDK CVE-2021-35394 — CRITICAL · 2026-10-03
- TuxBot v3 Evolution: Keksec-Linked IoT/Linux Botnet with Verbatim LLM Chain-of-Thought Code Artifacts — MEDIUM · 2026-07-16
- TuxBot v3 Evolution: LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Framework With a Broken Multi-CVE Exploit Chain — HIGH · 2026-07-15
- P2P Botnets in the Wild: Pink, Hajime, Mozi, FritzFrog, and Panchan — Decentralized C2 Landscape (360 Netlab Continuous Monitoring) — HIGH · 2026-06-10
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.