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VulnerabilityCVE-2015-2051Published 2015-02-23

CVE-2015-2051 — Dlink Dir-645 Firmware

highCISA KEVPublic exploit1 PoC repo

As of 2025-10-22, CVE-2015-2051 is a HIGH-severity vulnerability in Dlink Dir-645 Firmware, CVSS v3.1 8.8, EPSS 97.1% (99.8th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-02-10), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2022-08-10. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 2 tracked threat campaigns to CVE-2015-2051, most recently “ToxNetV2: AI-Assisted AArch64 Linux P2P Botnet Controller Using NVIDIA NIM LLM”.

CVSS v3.1
8.8/10High
EPSS
97.1%Higher than 99.8% of scored CVEs
CISA KEV
ListedAdded · due 2022-08-10
Tracked threats
2Campaigns referencing it
Priority
9/10Threadlinqs triage score
Published
Updated 2025-10-22
CVSS v3.1 8.8 (HIGH) · EPSS 97.1% (higher than 99.8% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 9/10 · Published 2015-02-23

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What is CVE-2015-2051?

The D-Link DIR-645 Wired/Wireless Router Rev. Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a GetDeviceSettings action to the HNAP interface.

The record classifies CVE-2015-2051 under weakness class CWE-77. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable from an adjacent network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 2 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 4259 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score
8.8 — HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (FIRST)
97.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.8% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV
Listed since 2022-02-10, federal remediation deadline 2022-08-10
Threadlinqs priority
9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
Published
2015-02-23, last modified 2025-10-22

Is CVE-2015-2051 being exploited?

CISA added CVE-2015-2051 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-02-10, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2022-08-10 under BOD 22-01. Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2015-2051 is publicly available. 1 public proof-of-concept repository is tracked for this identifier. It currently carries a trending score of 53 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

  • Dlink: Dir-645 Firmware, Dir-645 a1

How to fix CVE-2015-2051

Vendor advisory: http://securityadvisories.dlink.com/security/publication.aspx?name=SAP10051. Because CVE-2015-2051 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2022-08-10. 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-2015-2051

2 tracked threats in the Threadlinqs corpus reference CVE-2015-2051, 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

Vulnerability database entry

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