Infinite loop in TL-R600VPN - CVE-2018-3948

 

Infinite loop in TL-R600VPN - CVE-2018-3948

Published: November 20, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15963
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-3948
CWE-ID: CWE-835
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: TP-Link
Affected software:
TL-R600VPN

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to infinite loop condition in the URI-parsing functionality of the TP-Link TL-R600VPN HTTP server when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted URL and cause the server to stop responding to requests, resulting in downtime for the management portal.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-3948

Update to version 4.0.

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