CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-15840
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-03-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
TP-Link TL-WR840N devices allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (networking outage) via fragmented packets, as demonstrated by an "nmap -f" command.
Affected configurations
• tp-link tl-wr840n firmware
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- https://hackingvila.wordpress.com/2019/02/17/tp-link-wireless-n-router-wr840n-buffer-overflow-cve-2018-15840/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://hackingvila.wordpress.com/2019/02/17/tp-link-wireless-n-router-wr840n-buffer-overflow-cve-2018-15840/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory