CVE-2022-43636

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Mar 29, 2023
Updated
Feb 12, 2025
Reserved
Oct 21, 2022

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Description

This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to bypass authentication on affected installations of TP-Link TL-WR940N 6_211111 3.20.1(US) routers. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the httpd service, which listens on TCP port 80 by default. The issue results from the lack of sufficient randomness in the sequnce numbers used for session managment. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to bypass authentication on the system. Was ZDI-CAN-18334.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.07.5 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hzdi

Weaknesses

  • CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values

Affected Products

ProductVersions
TL-WR940NTP-Link
  • 6_211111 3.20.1(US)Affected

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