fkie_cve-2024-57040
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-02-26 22:15
Modified
2025-04-07 18:29
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
TL-WR845N(UN)_V4_200909 and TL-WR845N(UN)_V4_190219 was discovered to contain a hardcoded password for the root account which can be obtained by analyzing downloaded firmware or via a brute force attack through physical access to the router.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.iiita.ac.in/iot/hashed_password.pdfThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
tp-link tl-wr845n_firmware 190219
tp-link tl-wr845n_firmware 200909
tp-link tl-wr845n_firmware 201214
tp-link tl-wr845n 4.0


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