Web-service crash via persistent language overflow
Published Jul 8, 2025 · Updated Jul 9, 2025
Stack-based buffer overflow in D-Link DIR-825 2.10 allows remote attackers to crash httpd via an oversized language parameter. The switch_language.cgi handler stores the unvalidated value in NVRAM; later ASP rendering concatenates it beyond a fixed-size stack buffer in sub_40BFC4. No authentication or user interaction is required, and the demonstrated result is a segmentation fault that terminates the router's web service.
Summary
What happened
Stack-based buffer overflow in D-Link DIR-825 2.10 allows remote attackers to crash httpd via an oversized language parameter. The switch_language.cgi handler stores the unvalidated value in NVRAM; later ASP rendering concatenates it beyond a fixed-size stack buffer in sub_40BFC4. No authentication or user interaction is required, and the demonstrated result is a segmentation fault that terminates the router's web service.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-7206
- Published
- Jul 8, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 9, 2025
- Vendor
- D-Link
- Product
- DIR-825
- Classifications
- CWE-121, CWE-119, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 8, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 9, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2.10
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Public exploit references
- DIR-825 switch_language.cgi crash proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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