CVE-2018-3948 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the URI-parsing functionality of the TP-Link TL-R600VPN HTTP server. A specially crafted URL can cause the server to become unresponsive, leading to downtime for the management portal. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and without authentication, resulting in high availability impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:tp-link:tl-r600vpn_firmware:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:tp-link:tl-r600vpn_firmware:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.