Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-40357

High

Published: 06 September 2023

Published
06 September 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0014 34.1th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-40357 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Tp-Link Archer Ax50 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.0 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 34.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Multiple TP-LINK products allow a network-adjacent authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands. Affected products/versions are as follows: Archer AX50 firmware versions prior to 'Archer AX50(JP)_V1_230529', Archer A10 firmware versions prior to 'Archer A10(JP)_V2_230504', Archer AX10 firmware versions prior to…

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'Archer AX10(JP)_V1.2_230508', and Archer AX11000 firmware versions prior to 'Archer AX11000(JP)_V1_230523'.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

tp-link
archer ax50 firmware
≤ 230529
tp-link
archer a10 firmware
≤ 230504
tp-link
archer ax10 firmware
≤ 230508
tp-link
archer ax11000 firmware
≤ 230523

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

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