CVE-2025-9091 (GCVE-0-2025-9091)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-17 02:32 – Updated: 2025-08-18 13:15
VLAI?
Title
Tenda AC20 shadow hard-coded credentials
Summary
A security flaw has been discovered in Tenda AC20 16.03.08.12. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /etc_ro/shadow. The manipulation leads to hard-coded credentials. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Severity ?
2 (Low)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
2.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
2.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
CWE
  • CWE-798 - Hard-coded Credentials
  • CWE-259 - Use of Hard-coded Password
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Tenda AC20 Affected: 16.03.08.12
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Credits
n0ps1ed (VulDB User)
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