FKIE_CVE-2025-14739

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-18 19:16 - Updated: 2025-12-19 18:00
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Summary
Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability in TP-Link WR940N and WR941ND allows local unauthenticated attackers the ability to execute DoS attack and potentially arbitrary code execution under the context of the ‘root’ user.This issue affects WR940N and WR941ND: ≤ WR940N v5 3.20.1 Build 200316, ≤ WR941ND v6 3.16.9 Build 151203.
References
f23511db-6c3e-4e32-a477-6aa17d310630https://blog.exodusintel.com/2022/06/23/tp-link-wr940n-wr941nd-uninitialized-pointer-vulnerability/
f23511db-6c3e-4e32-a477-6aa17d310630https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tl-wr940n/v5/#Firmware
f23511db-6c3e-4e32-a477-6aa17d310630https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tl-wr941nd/#Firmware
f23511db-6c3e-4e32-a477-6aa17d310630https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/4848/
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