CVE-2023-23040 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

TP-Link router TL-WR940N V6 3.19.1 Build 180119 uses a deprecated MD5 algorithm to hash the admin password used for basic authentication.

Published: 2023-02-22

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:o:tp-link:tl-wr940n_firmware:6_3.19.1:180119:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:h:tp-link:tl-wr940n:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-27140	TP-Link router TL-WR940N V6 3.19.1 Build 180119 uses a deprecated MD5 algorithm to hash the admin password used for basic authentication.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00151.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://midist0xf.medium.com/tl-wr940n-uses-weak-md5-hashing-algorithm-ae7b589860d2
https://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/tl-wr940n/#Firmware

History

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Tp-link Tl-wr940n Tl-wr940n Firmware

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-02-22T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-12T20:48:12.462Z

Reserved: 2023-01-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-23040

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T10:28:39.596Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-22T17:15:12.057

Modified: 2025-03-12T21:15:41.230

Link: CVE-2023-23040

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-327

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