CVE-2004-1540
ZyXEL Prestige 623, 650, and 652 HW Routers, and possibly other versions, with HTTP Remote Administration enabled, does not require a…
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Description
ZyXEL Prestige 623, 650, and 652 HW Routers, and possibly other versions, with HTTP Remote Administration enabled, does not require a password to access rpFWUpload.html, which allows remote attackers to reset the router configuration file.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Exploit-DB1 entry
- ZYXEL 3 Prestige Router - HTTP Remote Administration Configuration Reset (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24760remote, hardwarepublished 22 Nov 2004Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.6% · top 6.1% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 20041121 Router ZyXEL Prestige 650 HW http remote admin. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 12108 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 11723 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 13278 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- zyxel-configuration-reset(18202) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20041124 Re: Router ZyXEL Prestige 650 HW http remote admin. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1012298 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2004-1534 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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