CVE-2024-57040

critical · 9.8

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.

9.8

CVSS

1.1%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

65th

EPSS percentile

2025-02-26

Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-798

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
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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References

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

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