CVE-2012-10021: D-Link DIR-605L

D-Link DIR-605L Captcha Handling Buffer Overflow

CVSS 9.3 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.051 · 92nd percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.3: 9.0 or more.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 31 Jul 2025, 14:54 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
D-Link	DIR-605L	affected 1.12 to 1.13, inclusive custom Other versions: unknown

Identifiers

CVE-2012-10021

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-121

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.3	Critical	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.051, the 92nd percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 31 Jul 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=51923.0
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/dlink-dir605l-captcha-handling-stack-based-buffer-overflow third-party-advisory
raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/linux/http/dlink_dir605l_captcha_bof.rb exploit
web.archive.org/web/20121012062554/http://www.devttys0.com/2012/10/exploiting-a-mips-stack-overflow/ technical-descriptionexploit
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29127 exploit

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