Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-57357

High

Published: 07 February 2025

Published
07 February 2025
Modified
03 July 2025
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 0.1220 94.0th percentile
Risk Priority 23 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-57357 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Tp-Link Tl-Wpa8630 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.0 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 6.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2024-57357 is a command-injection vulnerability in the TP-Link TL-WPA8630 (US) V2 powerline Wi-Fi extender running firmware version 2.0.4 Build 20230427. The flaw resides in function sub_4256CC and permits an attacker to inject the parameter 'devpwd', resulting in execution of arbitrary operating-system commands. It is tracked under CWE-78 and carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.0.

An attacker with adjacent-network access and low privileges can remotely trigger the injection without user interaction, obtaining full control over the affected device and thereby compromising its confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Public proof-of-concept material is available in the referenced GitHub repository. The EPSS score rose from a low baseline to a peak of 0.2058 before settling at the current value of 0.1220, indicating that exploitation interest increased after disclosure.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue in TPLINK TL-WPA 8630 TL-WPA8630(US)_V2_2.0.4 Build 20230427 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via function sub_4256CC, which allows command injection by injecting 'devpwd'.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1059.004 Unix Shell Execution
Adversaries may abuse Unix shell commands and scripts for execution.
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Why these techniques?

Command injection in network device firmware directly enables remote exploitation of the device's web/management interface (T1190) and arbitrary command execution via Unix shell (T1059.004).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

tp-link
tl-wpa8630 firmware
2.0.4

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Directly prevents command injection vulnerability by enforcing input validation and error handling on the 'devpwd' parameter in function sub_4256CC.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Remediates the specific firmware flaw enabling remote code execution through timely identification and patching.

SC-7 Boundary Protection partial match
prevent

Mitigates the adjacent network access vector (AV:A) required for low-privilege exploitation by controlling communications at network boundaries.

References