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CVE-2018-12693

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 15.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-06-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in TP-Link TL-WA850RE Wi-Fi Range Extender with hardware version 5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (outage) via a long type parameter to /data/syslog.filter.json.

Affected products

• TP-Link Systems Inc. WA850RE: all versions

References

• https://medium.com/advisability/the-in-security-of-the-tp-link-technologies-tl-wa850re-wi-fi-range-extender-26db87a7a0cc
• https://medium.com/advisability/the-in-security-of-the-tp-link-technologies-tl-wa850re-wi-fi-range-extender-26db87a7a0cc

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