CVE-2023-33538 under attack for a year, but exploitation still unsuccessful
Hackers have targeted CVE-2023-33538 flaw in old TP-Link routers for a year, but no successful exploitation has been seen so far. Hackers have been trying for over a year to exploit a serious flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-33538 (CVSS score of 8.8), in outdated TP-Link routers, but so far without success. The vulnerability is a command […]
Hackers have been trying for over a year to exploit a serious flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-33538 (CVSS score of 8.8), in outdated TP-Link routers, but so far without success.
The vulnerability is a command injection vulnerability in the /userRpm/WlanNetworkRpm component that impacts several TP-Link router models (TL-TL-WR940N v2 and v4, TL-WR740N v1 and v2, and TL-WR841N v8 and v10 router models).
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