CVE-2018-11714

Summary

CVECVE-2018-11714
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-04 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-07-31 19:47:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered on TP-Link TL-WR840N v5 00000005 0.9.1 3.16 v0001.0 Build 170608 Rel.58696n and TL-WR841N v13 00000013 0.9.1 4.16 v0001.0 Build 170622 Rel.64334n devices. This issue is caused by improper session handling on the /cgi/ folder or a /cgi file. If an attacker sends a header of "Referer: http://192.168.0.1/mainFrame.htm" then no authentication is required for any action.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-384

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Tp-link Tl-wr840n 5.0 All All All
Hardware Tp-link Tl-wr840n 5.0 All All All
Operating System Tp-link Tl-wr840n Firmware 0.9.1_3.16 All All All
Operating System Tp-link Tl-wr840n Firmware 0.9.1_3.16 All All All
Hardware Tp-link Tl-wr841n 13.0 All All All
Hardware Tp-link Tl-wr841n 13.0 All All All
Operating System Tp-link Tl-wr841n Firmware 0.9.1_4.16 All All All
Operating System Tp-link Tl-wr841n Firmware 0.9.1_4.16 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
TP-Link TL-WR840N/TL-WR841N - Authenticaton Bypass - Hardware webapps Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Time to Disable TP-Link Home WiFi Router (CVE-2018-11714) - SecureLayer7 MISC blog.securelayer7.net Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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