FKIE_CVE-2024-46341

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-12-10 20:15 - Updated: 2025-06-20 18:50
Severity ?
8.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
TP-Link TL-WR845N(UN)_V4_190219 was discovered to transmit credentials in base64 encoded form, which can be easily decoded by an attacker executing a man-in-the-middle attack.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.iiita.ac.in/iot/base64-authorization.docxThird Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://security.iiita.ac.in/iot/base64-authorization.docxThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
tp-link tl-wr845n_firmware 190219
tp-link tl-wr845n v4
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  "lastModified": "2025-06-20T18:50:21.623",
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