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🛡️ CVE-2023-36489 — tl-wr802n-firmware

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-78 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Multiple TP-LINK products allow a network-adjacent unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands. Affected products/versions are as follows: TL-WR802N firmware versions prior to 'TL-WR802N(JP)_V4_221008', TL-WR841N firmware versions prior to 'TL-WR841N(JP)_V14_230506', and TL-WR902AC firmware versions prior to 'TL-WR902AC(JP)_V3_230506'.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Adjacent network — the attacker has to sit on the same local or logical network.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-36489 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2023-36489 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • tl-wr802n-firmware (fixed in 221008)
  • tl-wr841n-firmware (fixed in 230506)
  • tl-wr902ac-firmware (fixed in 230506)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 September 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

jvn.jp
www.tp-link.com
www.tp-link.com
www.tp-link.com
jvn.jp
www.tp-link.com
www.tp-link.com
www.tp-link.com

Other advisories for this package

tl-wr802n-firmware has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-78: OS Command Injection) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-09-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
tl-wr802n-firmware — 221008
tl-wr841n-firmware — 230506
tl-wr902ac-firmware — 230506

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