CVE-2025-1877

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in D-Link DAP-1562 1.10. This affects the function pure_auth_check of the component HTTP POST Request Handler. The manipulation of the argument a1 leads to null pointer dereference. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.298191
• https://vuldb.com/?id.298191
• https://vuldb.com/?submit.506526
• https://witty-maiasaura-083.notion.site/D-link-DAP-1562-pure_auth_check-Vulnerability-1a5b2f2a63618013a1fecb743f2d0667
• https://www.dlink.com/