CVE-2018-3949 is an information disclosure vulnerability affecting the TP-Link TL-R600VPN router and its firmware. This flaw allows an attacker to perform directory traversal via a specially crafted URL, leading to the disclosure of sensitive system files. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability can be triggered by unauthenticated or authenticated web requests over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in high confidentiality impact. While there is no known active exploitation (KEV) or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness.
| 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:H/I:N/A:N
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.