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CVE-2023-1389: Unauthenticated Command Injection in TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800)
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.
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Tenable Advisory ID
TRA-2023-11
CVSSv3 Base / Temporal Score
CVSSv3 Vector
AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products
TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) < 1.1.4 Build 20230219
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