Vulnerability CVE-2012-5687
Published: 2012-11-01   Modified: 2012-11-02

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
TP-LINK TL-WR841N Local File Inclusion
Matan Azugi
30.10.2012

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
None
None
Affected software
Tp-link -> Tl-wr841n 
Tp-link -> Tl-wr841n firmware 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/79662
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/117749/TP-LINK-TL-WR841N-Local-File-Inclusion.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0154.html
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