CVE-2008-6974

Exp

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in apply.cgi in DD-WRT 24 sp1 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) execute arbitrary commands via the ping_ip parameter; (2) change the administrative credentials via the http_username and http_passwd parameters; (3) enable remote administration via the remote_management parameter; or (4) configure port forwarding via certain from, to, ip, and pro parameters.

Published: 2009-08-14 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-6974 is rated High Exploit Risk (74/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.68%). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-6974

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
9209 exploit_db edb 2009-07-20 Exploit-DB ↗
7389 exploit_db edb 2008-12-08 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-6974

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-03-02 4.05% 4.68% +0.63%
2 2026-01-15 1.79% 4.05% +2.26%
3 2025-05-05 1.79%

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-6974

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-6974

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-6974

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
dd-wrt dd-wrt <= 24 cpe:2.3:a:dd-wrt:dd-wrt:*:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-6974

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