CVE-2024-57040

CVSS 9.8 CRITICALEPSS 1.1%CWE-798

Vexday Risk Score

48Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

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PoC available → attend closely

CVSS 9.8EPSS 1.1%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

26 Feb 2025Published on NVD

18 Mar 2025Public PoC

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

TP-Link TL-WR845N devices with firmware 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. NOTE: The supplier has stated that this issue was fixed in firmware versions 250401 or later.

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

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

githubgithub.com/absholi7ly/Poc-CVE-2024-57040★ 2

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References

https://security.iiita.ac.in/iot/hashed_password.pdf