CVE-2025-9778 - CVE House

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Status published Low CVE-2025-9778

Tenda W12 Administrative shadow hard-coded credentials

1.8 CVSS

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Yu Bao (VulDB User)

References

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Affected Vendor

Tenda

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Affected Software

W12

Vulnerable Versions:

1.0.0.1(5411), 1.0.0.5(9419), 2.0.0.3(8326), 2.0.0.6(10720), 3.0.0.5(3644), 3.0.0.6(3948)

Timeline

Official Publish: September 1st, 2025

Last Modified: September 2nd, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: 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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-798 CWE-259

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1552 Unsecured Credentials

Credential Access

T1078 Valid Accounts

T1021 Remote Services

Lateral Movement

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1098 Account Manipulation

Privilege Escalation

T1005 Data from Local System