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Critical Security Vulnerabilities Discovered in Netcomm and TP-Link Routers
2023-01-18 10:20

Security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Netcomm and TP-Link routers, some of which could be weaponized to achieve remote code execution.

The flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-4873 and CVE-2022-4874, concern a case of stack-based buffer overflow and authentication bypass and impact Netcomm router models NF20MESH, NF20, and NL1902 running software versions earlier than R6B035.

"The two vulnerabilities, when chained together, permit a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code," the CERT Coordination Center said in an advisory published Tuesday.

Security researcher Brendan Scarvell has been credited with discovering and reporting the issues in October 2022.

In a related development, CERT/CC also detailed two unpatched security vulnerabilities affecting TP-Link routers WR710N-V1-151022 and Archer-C5-V2-160201 that could lead to information disclosure and remote code execution.

Microsoft researcher James Hull has been acknowledged for disclosing the two bugs.


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Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2023-01-11 CVE-2022-4874 Improper Authentication vulnerability in Netcommwireless Nf20 Firmware, Nf20Mesh Firmware and Nl1902 Firmware
Authentication bypass in Netcomm router models NF20MESH, NF20, and NL1902 allows an unauthenticated user to access content.
network
low complexity
netcommwireless CWE-287
7.5
2023-01-11 CVE-2022-4873 Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Netcommwireless Nf20 Firmware, Nf20Mesh Firmware and Nl1902 Firmware
On Netcomm router models NF20MESH, NF20, and NL1902 a stack based buffer overflow affects the sessionKey parameter.
network
low complexity
netcommwireless CWE-787
critical
9.8

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