CVE-2023-1389

🔥 Known Exploited (CISA KEV)HIGH

8.8

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.0000%

EPSS Percentile0.00th

Published2023-03-15

Last Modified2026-06-17

Data SourcesNVDCISA KEV

Vulnerability Description

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.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

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Tp Link

Archer Ax21 Firmware

< 1.1.4

References & Advisories

🔗 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174131/TP-Link-Archer-AX21-Command-Injection.html

🔗 https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2023-11