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CVE-2017-16960

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

TP-Link TL-WVR, TL-WAR, TL-ER, and TL-R devices allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the t_bindif field of an admin/interface command to cgi-bin/luci, related to the get_device_byif function in /usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/admin/interface.lua in uhttpd.

Affected products

• TP-Link Tl-Er3210G Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-Er3220G Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-Er5110G Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-Er5120G Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-Er5510G: v2, v3
• TP-Link Tl-Er5520G: v2, v3
• TP-Link Tl-Er6110G Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-Er6120G: v2
• TP-Link Tl-Er6220G Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-Er6510G Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-Er6520G: v2, v3
• TP-Link Tl-Er7520G Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-R4149G Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-R4239G: v2
• TP-Link Tl-R4299G: v2
• TP-Link Tl-R473: v5
• TP-Link Tl-R473G Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-R473Gp-Ac Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-R473P-Ac Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-R478: v6
• TP-Link Tl-R478+: v7
• TP-Link Tl-R478G+: v3
• TP-Link Tl-R478G Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-R479Gp-Ac Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-R479Gpe-Ac Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-R479P-Ac Firmware: all versions
• TP-Link Tl-R483: v5
• TP-Link Tl-R483G: v2
• TP-Link Tl-R488: v5
• TP-Link Tl-War1200L Firmware: all versions

References

• https://github.com/coincoin7/Wireless-Router-Vulnerability/blob/master/TplinkInterfaceAuthenticatedRCE.txt
• https://github.com/coincoin7/Wireless-Router-Vulnerability/blob/master/TplinkInterfaceAuthenticatedRCE.txt

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