CVE-2025-6931 - CVE House

Back to Database

Status published Medium CVE-2025-6931

D-Link DCS-6517/DCS-7517 Root Password Generation httpd generate_pass_from_mac entropy

6.3 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in D-Link DCS-6517 and DCS-7517 up to 2.02.0. Affected by this vulnerability is the function generate_pass_from_mac of the file /bin/httpd of the component Root Password Generation Handler. The manipulation leads to insufficient entropy. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

THREAT MONITOR

Am I Vulnerable?

Launch our assessment wizard to check if your infrastructure is exposed to • CVE-2025-6931

Check My Exposure

Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

CookedMelon (VulDB User)

References

More from D-Link

View All →

D-Link DI-8400 yyxz.asp yyxz_dlink_asp stack-based overflow

D-Link DI-7400G+ mng_platform.asp sub_478D28 command injection

D-Link DIR-852 SOAP Service soap.cgi soapcgi_main os command injection

D-Link DI-500WF jhttpd version_upgrade.asp os command injection

D-Link DIR-816L soap.cgi soapcgi_main os command injection

Affected Vendor

D-Link

View all reports →

Affected Software

DCS-6517, DCS-7517

Vulnerable Versions:

2.02

Timeline

Official Publish: June 30th, 2025

Last Modified: July 1st, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:R

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-331 CWE-330

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.