Actively exploited · Published Apr 17, 2015 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2015-3035

High 7.5 Exploited

In plain English

A high-severity path traversal in Multiple Archer Devices from TP-Link. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on March 25, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 83.9% (higher than 99.7% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, Nuclei. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)83.9%top 0.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Mar 25, 2022
Attack tooling2Metasploit, Nuclei

CISA guidance

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Federal agencies must remediate by Apr 15, 2022.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in TP-LINK Archer C5 (1.2) with firmware before 150317, C7 (2.0) with firmware before 150304, and C8 (1.0) with firmware before 150316, Archer C9 (1.0), TL-WDR3500 (1.0), TL-WDR3600 (1.0), and TL-WDR4300 (1.0) with firmware before 150302, TL-WR740N (5.0) and TL-WR741ND (5.0) with firmware before 150312, and TL-WR841N (9.0), TL-WR841N (10.0), TL-WR841ND (9.0), and TL-WR841ND (10.0) with firmware before 150310 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the PATH_INFO to login/.

Affected products (as reported)

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Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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