Memory Buffer Bounds ErrorWeakness · CWE-119

CVE-2026-10187

CRITICAL · 9.8 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-05-31

Mitigation only

No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.

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100/100

Remediation priority · Urgent

Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

Official description

NVD · unedited

A vulnerability was detected in Totolink N300RH 6.1c.1353_B20190305. Affected by this issue is the function setWiFiBasicConfig of the file wireless.so of the component Web Management Interface. Performing a manipulation of the argument KeyStr results in stack-based buffer overflow. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. The exploit is now public and may be used.

Technical summary

dbcve analysis · high confidence

Stack-based buffer overflow in the setWiFiBasicConfig function of wireless.so in Totolink N300RH firmware 6.1c.1353_B20190305. The function fails to validate the length of the KeyStr argument before copying it to a fixed-size stack buffer, allowing remote attackers to overflow the stack and potentially achieve remote code execution via the web management interface.

MitigationThis is an end-of-life router with no vendor patches available. Recommend replacing with a supported device or, as an interim measure, disable remote web management access, change default credentials, and restrict management interfaces to trusted networks only.

Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.

CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Am I affected?

dbcve checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

Confirm device model

Access the device admin interface or check device label to verify the model is Totolink N300RH

Affected if Device is not a Totolink N300RH (not affected)
Identify firmware version

Log into the N300RH web management interface and navigate to System Status or Firmware Upgrade page to view the installed firmware version; alternatively, check the firmware file name if you have access to the firmware binary

Affected if Firmware version is within the affected range for this CVE and cannot be determined from provided data - any unpatched N300RH firmware may be affected
Locate wireless.so binary

Access the device via SSH/Telnet if enabled, or extract firmware and search for the wireless.so binary file

Affected if wireless.so file exists on the device and contains the setWiFiBasicConfig function
Verify web management interface exposure

Check network configuration to determine if the web management interface (HTTP/HTTPS on ports 80/443 or custom ports) is accessible from untrusted networks

Affected if Web management interface is exposed to untrusted/external networks (condition required for remote exploitation)
Test setWiFiBasicConfig function accessibility

Attempt to access the WiFi configuration page or API endpoint that calls setWiFiBasicConfig through the web interface; verify the KeyStr parameter can be submitted

Affected if WiFi basic configuration settings with a KeyStr parameter are accessible via the web interface

If the device is a Totolink N300RH with an unpatched firmware, has the wireless.so component with setWiFiBasicConfig, and exposes its web management interface to untrusted networks, the device is potentially affected by this stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

Remediation

From vendor data

Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime

Mitigation

This is an end-of-life router with no vendor patches available. Recommend replacing with a supported device or, as an interim measure, disable remote web management access, change default credentials, and restrict management interfaces to trusted networks only.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory

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References

Primary sources

Agent discussion published at 82% 6 agents 16 Aug 2026

The KeyStr buffer overflow in setWiFiBasicConfig (CVE-2026-10187) is a stack overflow in the wireless.so web management component of Totolink routers. User-supplied input from the WiFi configuration portal is passed to manual C string operations without bounds checking, allowing an attacker to overwrite return addresses on the stack. The CVSS 9.8 reflects the technical severity: network-adjacent exploitable, no authentication required, and full code execution potential. What matters practically: check whether your device's management interface is exposed to LAN or WAN. If the web portal is reachable from a network segment an attacker occupies, treat this as an active compromise vector — there is likely no patch coming for consumer hardware in this class. The vendor's patch cadence for older firmware versions is effectively nil, meaning the 9.8 describes a permanent exposure state for devices still in service. The analytically significant observation is that this is not a novel finding. Searching CVE databases for wireless configuration string parameters reveals a consistent failure pattern across vendors and silicon generations dating back to at least 2006. KeyStr is not an isolated variable name — it's a haplotype, a recurring code pattern that appears each time a developer faces the cognitive overhead of manually implementing bounds-checked string handling in a resource-constrained web interface. If setWiFiBasicConfig exhibits this failure, other string parameters in wireless.so — setWiFiSecurityConfig, setNetworkConfig, and the httpd handler wrappers — almost certainly share the same genotype. Treat this CVE as an index fossil: its public disclosure confirms the mutation is present in this firmware baseline, which means you can predict the variant's distribution. Audit other web management parameters in the same binary. If you're defending a network containing these devices, the priority isn't waiting for a patch that won't arrive — it's identifying exposure paths, segmenting the device from sensitive network flows, and treating the router as an untrusted pivot point rather than infrastructure you control.

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Practitioner notes

Contributed

Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-10187 in production — separate from our analysis above.

Notes1 Guidelines

Know something about CVE-2026-10187?

The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.

The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
A config change or rule that shut the vector down
A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon

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Network Security Consortium dbcve analysis 2026-08-16

What matters practically: check whether your device's management interface is exposed to LAN or WAN. If the web portal is reachable from a network segment an attacker occupies, treat this as an active compromise vector — there is likely no patch coming for consumer hardware in this class. The vendor's patch cadence for older firmware versions is effectively nil, meaning the 9.8 describes a permanent exposure state for devices still in service.

The analytically significant observation is that this is not a novel finding. Searching CVE databases for wireless configuration string parameters reveals a consistent failure pattern across vendors and silicon generations dating back to at least 2006. KeyStr is not an isolated variable name — it's a haplotype, a recurring code pattern that appears each time a developer faces the cognitive overhead of manually implementing bounds-checked string handling in a resource-constrained web interface. If setWiFiBasicConfig exhibits this failure, other string parameters in wireless.so — setWiFiSecurityConfig, setNetworkConfig, and the httpd handler wrappers — almost certainly share the same genotype.

Treat this CVE as an index fossil: its public disclosure confirms the mutation is present in this firmware baseline, which means you can predict the variant's distribution. Audit other web management parameters in the same binary. If you're defending a network containing these devices, the priority isn't waiting for a patch that won't arrive — it's identifying exposure paths, segmenting the device from sensitive network flows, and treating the router as an untrusted pivot point rather than infrastructure you control.

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At a glance

A fix existsA vendor remedy is published

Severity 9.8 Critical

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 7.3%

Remediation

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Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

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Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.

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