CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-16959

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-11-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

The locale feature in cgi-bin/luci on TP-Link TL-WVR, TL-WAR, TL-ER, and TL-R devices allows remote authenticated users to test for the existence of arbitrary files by making an operation=write;locale=%0d request, and then making an operation=read request with a crafted Accept-Language HTTP header, related to the set_sysinfo and get_sysinfo functions in /usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/locale.lua in uhttpd.

Affected configurations

• tp-link tl-wvr300 firmware • tp-link tl-wvr302 firmware • tp-link tl-wvr450 firmware • tp-link tl-wvr450l firmware • tp-link tl-wvr450g firmware • tp-link tl-wvr458 firmware • tp-link tl-wvr458l firmware • tp-link tl-wvr458p firmware • tp-link tl-wvr900g firmware • tp-link tl-wvr900l firmware • tp-link tl-wvr1200l firmware • tp-link tl-wvr1300l firmware • tp-link tl-wvr1300g firmware • tp-link tl-wvr1750l firmware • tp-link tl-war2600l firmware • tp-link tl-wvr4300l firmware • tp-link tl-war302 firmware • tp-link tl-war450 firmware • tp-link tl-war450l firmware • tp-link tl-war458 firmware • tp-link tl-war458l firmware • tp-link tl-war900l firmware • tp-link tl-war1200l firmware • tp-link tl-war1300l firmware • tp-link tl-war1750l firmware • tp-link tl-er3210g firmware • tp-link tl-er3220g firmware • tp-link tl-er5110g firmware • tp-link tl-er5120g firmware • tp-link tl-er5510g firmware • tp-link tl-er5520g firmware • tp-link tl-er6110g firmware • tp-link tl-er6120g firmware • tp-link tl-er6220g firmware • tp-link tl-er6510g firmware • tp-link tl-er6520g firmware • tp-link tl-er7520g firmware • tp-link tl-r473 firmware • tp-link tl-r473g firmware • tp-link tl-r473p-ac firmware • tp-link tl-r479gp-ac firmware • tp-link tl-r478 firmware • tp-link tl-r478\+ firmware • tp-link tl-r478g firmware • tp-link tl-r478g\+ firmware • tp-link tl-r479p-ac firmware • tp-link tl-r479gpe-ac firmware • tp-link tl-r483 firmware • tp-link tl-r483g firmware • tp-link tl-r488 firmware • tp-link tl-r4149g firmware • tp-link tl-r4239g firmware • tp-link tl-r4299g firmware

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References