THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2014-5246
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2014-5246

A5s Firmware vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
12.5%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
The Shenzhen Tenda Technology Tenda A5s router with firmware 3.02.05_CN allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator access by setting the admin:language cookie to zh-cn.
Affected vendor
Tenda
Affected product
A5s Firmware
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Published
2014-08-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 12.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-5246

  • Confirm whether Tenda A5s Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-5246.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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