What is CVE-2017-16960?

CVE-2017-16960 is a high-severity vulnerability in TP-Link Tl-Er3210g, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-11-27.

How severe is CVE-2017-16960?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

RCE in TP-Link Tl-Er3210g

CVE-2017-16960

TP-Link TL-WVR, TL-WAR, TL-ER, and TL-R devices allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the t_bindif field of an admin/interface command to cgi-bin/luci, related to the get_device_byif function in /usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/admin/interface.lua in uhttpd.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.024 (82.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-16960?: CVE-2017-16960 is a high-severity vulnerability in TP-Link Tl-Er3210g, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-11-27.
How severe is CVE-2017-16960?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.