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CVE-2025-13184

Unauthenticated Telnet enablement to root on TOTOLINK X5000R

CVSS 3.1
9.8 critical
EPSS
20%p97
Published
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Modified
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cstecgi.cgi on TOTOLINK X5000R firmware lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker turn on Telnet without credentials. On factory or reset units running V9.1.0u.6369_B20230113, that yields a root login with a blank password and arbitrary command execution. Earlier builds that share the same implementation may also be affected. No fixed release is named.

What to do: TOTOLINK has not listed a fixed build. Apply TOTOLINK's update for CVE-2025-13184 if one is published. No workaround is named.

ProductAffected
totolink x5000r firmwareV9.1.0u.6369_B20230113; earlier versions with the same implementation may also be affected
Estimated exposure
No basis for an estimate.

Order-of-magnitude estimate by the model from install counts, market share and public scan data it knows; verify before quoting.

Description · NVD

Unauthenticated Telnet enablement via cstecgi.cgi (auth bypass) leading to unauthenticated root login with a blank password on factory/reset X5000R V9.1.0u.6369_B20230113 (arbitrary command execution). Earlier versions that share the same implementation, may also be affected.

Vendors
totolink
Products
x5000r firmware
Weakness
CWE-863
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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