{"id":"CVE-2018-12693","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-12693","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:21:16.411Z","title":"Stack-based buffer overflow in TP-Link TL-WA850RE Wi-Fi Range Extender with hardware version 5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (outage) via a long type parameter to /data/syslog.filter.json.","description":"Stack-based buffer overflow in TP-Link TL-WA850RE Wi-Fi Range Extender with hardware version 5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (outage) via a long type parameter to /data/syslog.filter.json.","published":"2018-06-23T21:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:38:11.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-787"],"affected":["tp-link/tl-wa850re firmware"],"epss":{"score":0.15807,"percentile":0.96858,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.10596,"percentile":0.95646},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.15807,"percentile":0.96722}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 15.8%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.15807,"from":0.10596,"percentile":0.96722},"summary":"EPSS moved from 10.6% to 15.8% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"https://medium.com/advisability/the-in-security-of-the-tp-link-technologies-tl-wa850re-wi-fi-range-extender-26db87a7a0cc","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://medium.com/advisability/the-in-security-of-the-tp-link-technologies-tl-wa850re-wi-fi-range-extender-26db87a7a0cc","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12693","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}