VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2019-6989
CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability11.37%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-06-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
TP-Link TL-WR940N is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the ipAddrDispose function. By sending specially crafted ICMP echo request packets, a remote authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges.
Weakness classification
- CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write