CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8218
9.8 CRITICAL
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1188
Description
vsftpd on TP-Link C2 and C20i devices through firmware 0.9.1 4.2 v0032.0 Build 160706 Rel.37961n has a backdoor admin account with the 1234 password, a backdoor guest account with the guest password, and a backdoor test account with the test password.
Affected configurations
• tp-link c2 firmware (<= 0.9.1 4.2 v0032.0 build 160706)
• tp-link c20i firmware (<= 0.9.1 4.2 v0032.0 build 160706)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1188 Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default weakness
References
- https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2017-02-09-tplink-c2-and-c20i-vulnerable.html Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2017-02-09-tplink-c2-and-c20i-vulnerable.html Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory