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Tl Wr940n FirmwareOperating system · Tp Link

CVE-2025-6151

HIGH · 8.2 CVSS v4.0 Published 2025-06-17
No fix yet
No fix has been published. The vendor has not shipped a fixed release or patch. You remain exposed.
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88/100
Remediation priority · High
Public exploit Remotely reachable Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
A vulnerability has been found in TP-Link TL-WR940N V4 and TL-WR841N V11. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /userRpm/WanSlaacCfgRpm.htm, which may lead to buffer overflow. The attack may be launched remotely. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis
How this class of weakness works · CWE-119

The program reads or writes outside the bounds of an allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory. With crafted input an attacker can overwrite control data and, with effort, redirect execution to their own code. Remediation ranges from bounds checking and safe library functions to compiler mitigations, usually alongside a careful audit of the surrounding code.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Tl Wr940n FirmwareOperating system
Affected:all versions

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
Authentication
X
User interaction
None
Scope
X

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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dbcve · scoped
Recommended fix High confidence
  1. This vulnerability affects end-of-life (EOL) TP-Link TL-WR940N V4 and TL-WR841N V11 routers which are no longer supported by the vendor.
  2. No vendor patch or firmware update is available for these EOL products.
  3. Replace the affected EOL routers with currently supported models that receive security updates.
  4. If replacement is not immediately possible, isolate these devices on a restricted network segment to limit potential attack surface.
  5. Monitor the network for any suspicious traffic targeting the /userRpm/WanSlaacCfgRpm.htm endpoint.
Caveat EOL products have no vendor support; no firmware fix is available. Replacement with a supported device is the only remediation.

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

No vendor fix exists Tl Wr940n Firmware has not published a patch for this.

There is no version to upgrade to and no patch to apply. Every affected install stays exposed until the vendor ships a fix — or somebody else builds one.

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