CVE-2023-1389 (GCVE-0-2023-1389)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-15 00:00
Modified
2025-10-21 23:15
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Command Injection
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) Version: All versions prior to version 1.14 Build 20230219
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Data from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Date added: 2023-05-01

Due date: 2023-05-22

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Used in ransomware: Unknown

Notes: https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/archer-ax21/v3/#Firmware; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1389

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