CVE-2022-24355

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Feb 18, 2022
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Feb 2, 2022

Description

This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of TP-Link TL-WR940N 3.20.1 Build 200316 Rel.34392n (5553) routers. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of file name extensions. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-13910.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	8.8 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	zdi

Weaknesses

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

Product	Versions
TL-WR940NTP-Link	3.20.1 Build 200316 Rel.34392n (5553)Affected

References

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-265/

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