CVE-2012-5687

EPSS 68.7%

Vexday Risk Score

50Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

Exploit maturity

Functional exploit

Automatable exploit available (Nuclei/Metasploit).

CVSS —EPSS 68.7%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit simPatch —

Lifecycle

01 Nov 2012Published on NVD

15 Feb 2013Public PoC

Weaponization speed

106 daysto first PoC

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the web-based management feature on the TP-LINK TL-WR841N router with firmware 3.13.9 build 120201 Rel.54965n and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the PATH_INFO to the help/ URI.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.org/files/117749/TP-LINK-TL-WR841N-Local-File-Inclusion.htmlunverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/24504unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0154.html http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/117749/TP-LINK-TL-WR841N-Local-File-Inclusion.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79662