Vulnerability · Published Aug 8, 2025 · Assigned by VulDB
CVE-2025-8730Belkin F9K1009/F9K1010 Web Interface hard-coded credentials
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity hard-coded credentials in F9K1009 from Belkin. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.7% (higher than 90% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
A vulnerability was found in Belkin F9K1009 and F9K1010 2.00.04/2.00.09 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Web Interface. The manipulation leads to hard-coded credentials. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-798, CWE-259 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
References
- VDB-319226 | Belkin F9K1009/F9K1010 Web Interface hard-coded credentials vdb-entry
- VDB-319226 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP) signature, permissions-required
- Submit #621747 | Belkin F9K1009 F9K1009_WW_2.00.09 Use of Hard-coded Password third-party-advisory
- Submit #621748 | belkin F9K1010 F9K1010_WW_2.00.04 Use of Hard-coded Password (Duplicate) third-party-advisory
- Submit #621760 | belkin F9K1010 F9K1010_WW_2.00.04 Use of Weak Credentials (Duplicate) third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/Nicholas-wei/bug-discovery/blob/main/belkin/F9K1009_WW_2.00.09/belkin%20F9K1009_WW_2.00.09_hardcoded_credential.pdf related
- https://github.com/Nicholas-wei/bug-discovery/blob/main/belkin/F9K1010_WW_2.00.04/belkin_F9K1010_WW_2.00.04_hardcoded_credential.pdf exploit