CVE-2025-36752 (GCVE-0-2025-36752)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-13 08:16 – Updated: 2025-12-13 08:16
VLAI?
Summary
Growatt ShineLan-X communication dongle has an undocumented backup account with undocumented credentials which allows significant level access to the device, such as allowing any attacker to access the Setting Center. This means that this is effectively backdoor for all devices utilizing a Growatt ShineLan-X communication dongle.
Severity ?
9.4 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CWE
  • CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Growatt ShineLan-X Affected: 3.6.0.0 , ≤ 3.6.0.2 (semver)
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Credits
Alexandros Tokatlis Victor Pasman
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