CVE-2018-17015 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting TP-Link TL-WR886N 6.0 and 7.0 routers. Authenticated attackers can crash various router services, including HTTP and DNS, by submitting excessively long JSON data to the ddns phddns username field. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) requires prior authentication and has a high impact on availability, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0_2.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:tp-link:tl-wr886n_firmware:6.0_2.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0_1.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:tp-link:tl-wr886n_firmware:7.0_1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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