Vulnerability · Published Nov 15, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-40843
Medium 4.9
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 28.8% (higher than 98% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei.
Severity (CVSS NVD)4.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)28.8%top 1.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Nuclei
Official description
The Tenda AC1200 V-W15Ev2 V15.11.0.10(1576) router is vulnerable to improper authorization / improper session management that allows the router login page to be bypassed. This leads to authenticated attackers having the ability to read the routers syslog.log file which contains the MD5 password of the Administrator's user account.