Vulnerability · Published Mar 25, 2020 · Assigned by zdi
CVE-2020-10883
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity incorrect permission assignment in Archer A7 from TP-Link. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 5.3% (higher than 93% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit.
Official description
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of TP-Link Archer A7 Firmware Ver: 190726 AC1750 routers. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the file system. The issue lies in the lack of proper permissions set on the file system. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges. Was ZDI-CAN-9651.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-732 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L