Security News Popular TP-Link wireless home router open to remote hijacking

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By concatenating a known improper authentication flaw with a newly discovered CSRF vulnerability, remote unauthenticated attackers can obtain full control over TP-Link TL-WR841N, a popular wireless consumer router used worldwide.
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In an advisory detailing the CSRF and the two DoS vulnerabilities, Tenable has also detailed the efforts it went through to get TP-Link to fix them.
Unfortunately, as it seems, the latest firmware version available for the vulnerable router still sports the flaws. But, as 90 days have passed since they first contacted the company, Tenable publicly released information about their discovery.
Wells has also developed a proof of concept of the CSRF vulnerability and demonstrated its effectiveness.
 

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