CVE-2023-1389 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Adjacent Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is in the KEV database since May 1, 2023.

Exploitation active

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Tp-link	Archer Ax21 Archer Ax21 Firmware

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:o:tp-link:archer_ax21_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:h:tp-link:archer_ax21:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174131/TP-Link-Archer-AX21-Command-Injection.html
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2023-11

History

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		kev `{'dateAdded': '2023-05-01'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: tenable

Published: 2023-03-15T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-01-28T16:20:12.288Z

Reserved: 2023-03-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-1389

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:49:11.331Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-03-15T23:15:09.403

Modified: 2025-03-19T20:57:29.073

Link: CVE-2023-1389

Redhat

No data.

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