Dir 816 FirmwareOperating system · Dlink

CVE-2024-57681

MEDIUM · 5.3 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-01-16
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
See remediation →
62/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
An access control issue in the component form2alg.cgi of D-Link 816A2_FWv1.10CNB05_R1B011D88210 allows unauthenticated attackers to set the agl service of the device via a crafted POST request.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · high confidence

This is a broken access control vulnerability (CWE-284) in the web interface of D-Link 816A2 router firmware v1.10CNB05_R1B011D88210. The form2alg.cgi component fails to properly enforce authentication, allowing unauthenticated attackers to modify the agl service configuration via a crafted POST request.

MitigationApply available firmware patches from D-Link; if no patch exists, disable remote web management or restrict access to trusted IPs using firewall rules.

Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.

Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Dir 816 FirmwareOperating system
Affected:= 1.10cnb05_r1b011d88210

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Identify the device model
    Check if the target device is a D-Link DIR-816 router by reviewing the device label, web interface login page, or SNMP/sysinfo output
    Affected if The device is not a D-Link DIR-816 router
  2. Determine the firmware version
    Access the router web interface and navigate to the Status or System Info page to view the firmware version, or check via telnet/SSH if available using 'cat /proc/version' or similar command
    Affected if The firmware version is not exactly 1.10CNB05_R1B011D88210
  3. Verify the web management interface is enabled
    Check the router settings under Administration or Management > Remote Management to see if the HTTP/HTTPS web interface is enabled and accessible from the network
    Affected if The web interface is disabled or not accessible
  4. Confirm form2alg.cgi exists and is accessible
    Attempt to access the form2alg.cgi file via HTTP/HTTPS POST request to the router's web interface (e.g., http://<router-ip>/form2alg.cgi)
    Affected if The form2alg.cgi script does not exist or returns a 404 error
  5. Verify the agl service configuration capability
    Send a crafted POST request to form2alg.cgi targeting the agl service configuration parameters and observe if the request is processed without requiring authentication
    Affected if The router accepts and processes unauthenticated POST requests to form2alg.cgi for agl service configuration

You are affected if you have a D-Link DIR-816 router running firmware version 1.10CNB05_R1B011D88210 with its web interface accessible and the form2alg.cgi endpoint responds to unauthenticated requests.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

Check your environment

Paste your version and any relevant configuration and it will be compared against the affected criteria above. Do not include secrets or credentials.

AI-assisted, checked against the advisory. Informational, not a guarantee.

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Apply available firmware patches from D-Link; if no patch exists, disable remote web management or restrict access to trusted IPs using firewall rules.

Fix this in Dir 816 Firmware Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation3.0 h
  • Implementation4.0 h
  • Testing2.0 h
  • Review / QA1.0 h
10.0 hours of engineering $1,800
Get help mitigating

An estimate, not a bill — we confirm scope with you before any work starts. Need it this week? Rush from $2,880.

Scan for this in your stack

Free · runs locally
dbcve dependency scanner

Check whether your project pulls in CVE-2024-57681 — or any other known-vulnerable package — straight from your lock files. Free and open source; it runs locally and uploads nothing.

References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.

Primary sources

Practitioner notes

Contributed

Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2024-57681 in production — separate from our analysis above.

No notes yet

Be the first to add a field note for this CVE — a mitigation you’ve verified, a version caveat, or a link to a working fix. Sign in above to contribute.

What this is

A place for practitioners to share what actually worked: a mitigation you’ve tested, a configuration change, a version- or environment-specific caveat, or a link to a verified patch. The most useful notes rise to the top as peers upvote them, so the signal stays high.

What belongs here
  • Verified mitigations, workarounds, and config changes
  • Version or environment caveats, and links to real fixes
  • No weaponised exploit code, or anything meant to cause harm
  • No spam, self-promotion, credentials, or personal data