TP-Link Omada ER605 stack-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in TP-Link Omada ER605. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-5242. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in TP-Link Omada ER605 (version now known). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

TP-Link Omada ER605 Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of TP-Link Omada ER605 routers. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. However, devices are vulnerable only if configured to use the Comexe DDNS service. The specific flaw exists within the handling of DDNS error codes. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-22522.

The advisory is shared for download at zerodayinitiative.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-5242 since 05/22/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

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• TP-Link

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• Omada ER605

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.tp-link.com/

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