Vulnerability intelligence

CVE-2023-1389

TP-Link Archer AX-21 Command Injection Vulnerability

TP-Link Archer AX21

TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) firmware versions before 1.1.4 Build 20230219 contained a command injection vulnerability in the country form of the /cgi-bin/luci;stok=/locale endpoint on the web management interface. Specifically, the country parameter of the write operation was not sanitized before being used in a call to popen(), allowing an unauthenticated attacker to inject commands, which would be run as root, with a simple POST request.

CVSS Score

8.8

High

EPSS — Exploit Probability

100%

Riskier than 100% of all CVEs

Exploitation

Confirmed in the wild

Used in ransomware campaigns

Remediation

unknown

Federal deadline 2023-05-22