CVE-2025-9778

Tenda W12 Administrative shadow hard-coded credentials

State: Published
Severity: 1.8 Low
Published: Sep 1, 2025
Updated: Sep 2, 2025
Reserved: Sep 1, 2025

Description

A security vulnerability has been detected in Tenda W12 up to 3.0.0.6(3948). Affected is an unknown function of the file /etc_ro/shadow of the component Administrative Interface. The manipulation leads to hard-coded credentials. An attack has to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	1.8 Low	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P	VulDB
3.1	1.9 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:R	VulDB
3.0	1.9 Low	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:R	VulDB
2.0	0.8 Low	AV:L/AC:H/Au:M/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR	VulDB

Weaknesses

CWE-798 Hard-coded Credentials
CWE-259 Use of Hard-coded Password

Affected Products

Product	Versions
W12Tenda	1.0.0.1(5411)Affected 1.0.0.5(9419)Affected 2.0.0.3(8326)Affected 2.0.0.6(10720)Affected 3.0.0.5(3644)Affected 3.0.0.6(3948)Affected

References

VDB-322080 | Tenda W12 Administrative shadow hard-coded credentialsvdb-entry
VDB-322080 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA)signaturepermissions-required
Submit #640969 | Tenda AP W12 V1/V2/V3 Hard-coded Credentialsthird-party-advisory
https://github.com/August829/Yu/blob/main/58ead8e7e08bfb0e8.mdrelated
https://github.com/August829/Yu/blob/main/58ead8e7e08bfb0e8.md#steps-to-reproduceexploit
https://www.tenda.com.cn/product

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