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CVE-2020-14079

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-06-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

TRENDnet TEW-827DRU devices through 2.06B04 contain a stack-based buffer overflow in the ssi binary. The overflow allows an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code by POSTing to apply.cgi via the action auto_up_fw (or auto_up_lp) with a sufficiently long update_file_name key.

Affected products

• Trendnet AC2600 TEW-827DRU: through 2.06b04

References

• https://github.com/kuc001/IoTFirmware/blob/master/Trendnet/TEW-827/TRENDnet-auto_up_fw.pdf
• https://github.com/kuc001/IoTFirmware/blob/master/Trendnet/TEW-827/TRENDnet-auto_up_lp.pdf
• https://github.com/kuc001/IoTFirmware/blob/master/Trendnet/TEW-827/auto_up_fw_overflow.pdf
• https://github.com/kuc001/IoTFirmware/blob/master/Trendnet/TEW-827/auto_up_lp_overflow.pdf
• https://github.com/kuc001/IoTFirmware/blob/master/Trendnet/TEW-827/TRENDnet-auto_up_fw.pdf
• https://github.com/kuc001/IoTFirmware/blob/master/Trendnet/TEW-827/TRENDnet-auto_up_lp.pdf
• https://github.com/kuc001/IoTFirmware/blob/master/Trendnet/TEW-827/auto_up_fw_overflow.pdf
• https://github.com/kuc001/IoTFirmware/blob/master/Trendnet/TEW-827/auto_up_lp_overflow.pdf

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