CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-6989
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-06-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
TP-Link TL-WR940N is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the ipAddrDispose function. By sending specially crafted ICMP echo request packets, a remote authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges.
Affected configurations
• tp-link tl-wr940n firmware
• tp-link tl-wr941nd firmware
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152458/TP-LINK-TL-WR940N-TL-WR941ND-Buffer-Overflow.html packetstormsecurity.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46678/ www.exploit-db.com
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152458/TP-LINK-TL-WR940N-TL-WR941ND-Buffer-Overflow.html packetstormsecurity.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46678/ www.exploit-db.com